Kochi, April 23 -- In the men's pole vault, Dev Kumar Meena won gold and set a new national record with a 5.35m effort at the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition 2025. The continental mark for the event is 5.51m, according to Olympics.com.

On Tuesday, he surpassed his own previous personal best and national mark of 5.32m, which he had set at the National Games 2025. M Gowtham (5.15m) and Reegan G (5.10m) took home the silver and bronze medals in pole vault.

Meanwhile, another national record holder, Tejas Shirse, won the men's 110m hurdles after clocking a time of 13.65s.

Manav R (13.94s) and Muhammed Lazan (14.17s) were second and third, respectively. None of their times met the Asian Championships qualification mark of 1...