Tejaswin scripts national record in heptathlon
New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- India's leading combined events athlete Tejaswin Shankar won the lone gold for India on the last day of Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tianjin, China, as the country ended the competition with five medals to finish sixth overall.
Tejaswin, who wanted to break his own indoor heptathlon national record (5650 points) in this competition, walked the talk to aggregate 5993 points which is also a championship record.
The 27-year-old was leading on Day 1 and continued his good form on Sunday. Tejaswin clocked 8.02s to earn 977 points in 60m hurdles. With two events to go, the Indian was nearly 485 points ahead of his nearest rival. He was fourth in pole vault with a best effort of 4.20m which fetched him 673 points and took his tally to 5163 points. In the 1000m, Tejaswin finished second with a time of 2:43.91 (830 points) to total 5993 points.
Tajinderpal Singh Toor (silver in shot put) and Ancy Sojan (bronze in long jump) were other medal winners on Sunday....
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