Tumkur(Karnataka), April 25 -- Three national junior records highlighted the second day of the 24th National Junior (U20) Athletics Federation Competition being played here at the Mahatma Gandhi Stadium.
On a day when several athletes achieved new heights, Army's Asian junior silver medalist Nitin Gupta set a new benchmark in men's U20 5,000m race walk.
Uttar Pradesh long jumper Shahnavaz Khan also entered his names in record books.
Kerala's talented sprinter Mohammed Ashfaq hogged the limelight by breaking national junior and meet records in men's 400m.
Nitin Gupta became the first Indian race walker to break the 19 minutes barrier in junior men's 5,000m race walk. On his way to gold, he clocked 18:54.37, lowering his own national reco...