Indian GP: Yugendran leaps to a new meet record in men’s pole vault
The Hindu
R. Yugendran sets new pole vault record at Indian Grand Prix, clinching gold with 5.20m jump.
Tamil Nadu’s R. Yugendran set a new Grand Prix record of 5.20m, which he cleared in his second attempt, to clinch gold in the men’s pole vault event of the second Indian Grand Prix of the season at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Chennai on May 30.
Yugendran broke the previous record of 5m, set by Gajanan Kumar Upadhayay of Indian Railways in Bengaluru in the year 2010.
It was a three-way competition between Kerala’s Mariya Jaison (Kerala), and Tamil Nadu’s Baranica Elangovan and Pavithra Venkatesah for 3.90m in women’s pole vault.
Baranica cleared the mark in her second attempt, Mariya in her third, while Pavithra failed in all her three attempts.
Baranica went on to scale 4m.
Vithya Ramraj claimed gold in 57.28s in the women’s 400m hurdles, while Abha Khatua won the women’s shot put event gold with 17.13m.
Women: Pole vault: 1. Baranica Elangovan (TN) 4m; 2. Mariya Jaison (Ker) 3.90; V. Karthika (TN) 3.10.
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