Svetlana radzivil

Asian U20 Athletics Championships: India’s talented high jumper Pooja improved the national and meet record on the second day of the 22nd Asian U20 Athletics Championships being held in Hong Kong, on Friday.

On her way to winning the gold medal with a jump of 1.93m, Pooja improved the decade-old national record of 1.92m set by Sahana Kumari in 2012. Pooja’s performance on Friday was also better than the previous Asian U20 meet record of 1.90m set by Svetlana Radzivil of Uzbekistan in 2006.

Race walker Nitin Gupta set the ball rolling by winning first position in the men’s 5000m race walk. His gold-medal-winning time was 19:47.49 seconds. The talented race walker, however, fell short of his own Asian U20 record of 18:47.37. Tushar Panwar, the second Indian in the fray, finished sixth with a time of 20:55.41.