Meena got here out on high in a neck-and-neck contest with coaching associate Kuldeep.
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Kushare gave account of his focus to first register 2.22m and guarantee his CWG journey.
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In a spectacular neck-and-neck contest, Dev Meena pipped coaching associate Kuldeep Kumar to rewrite the lads’s pole vault Nationwide file with a mark of 5.45m within the Federation athletics meet on the Birsa Munda Stadium (Morabadi) on Sunday.
Pushing one another exhausting, each confirmed good rhythm to clear 5.45m. The 2 raised the bar to five.50m, however couldn’t go previous it. Meena acquired the higher of Kuldeep, who had set the Nationwide mark of 5.41m earlier this month, on the idea of registering fewer whole misses (Meena’s eight vs Kuldeep’s 9).
The 2 earned their tickets for the Commonwealth Video games.
“We did our greatest immediately and gave one another combat. We’ll proceed to maintain up our combat with a purpose to enhance additional,” mentioned Meena.
Shreeshankar leaped to eight.08m in his third soar
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“We’re nonetheless studying this technical sport and we’ll enhance,” mentioned Kuldeep.
Excessive jumper Sarvesh Kushare gave account of his focus to first register 2.22m and guarantee his CWG journey. He improved it additional to equal Tejaswin Shankar’s meet file (2.28m). Nevertheless, his try to enhance 1cm upon Tejaswin’s Nationwide file (2.29m) didn’t succeed.
A constant M. Sreeshankar leaped to eight.08m in his third soar to qualify for the CWG. His final two makes an attempt had been foul.
Forty-year-old Olympian Sandeep Kumar emerged the lads’s 10,000m race stroll champion after 18-year-old winner Nitin Gupta was disqualified as per World Athletics Technical Rule 6.2, which prohibits help to an athlete throughout an occasion, late on Saturday. Sandeep had filed a grievance after the race.
The outcomes (finals): Males: 1500m (CWG Q mark: 3:30.82): 1. Rahul Baloda (Raj) 3:40.06, 2. Sakir (Har) 3:40.83, 3. Ajay Kumar Saroj (UP) 3:40.92; 110m hurdles (CWG Q mark 13.39): 1. Tejas Shirse (Rel.) 13.50 (NMR, Previous Tejas Shirse 13.61, 2023), 2. Krishik M. (Rel) 13.52, 2. Muhammed Lazan (Navy) 13.83; Lengthy soar (CWG Q mark: 8.05m): 1. M. Sreeshankar (NCOE Thiruvananthapuram) 8.08m, 2. S. Lokesh (Rel) 7.94m, 3. Mohd. Atta Sazid (Har) 7.90m; Excessive soar (CWG Q mark 2.22m): 1. Sarvesh Kushare (Mah) 2.28m (MR, Previous 2.28m, Tejaswin Shankar, 2018), 2. Aadarsh Ram (TN) 2.22m, 3. Sudeep (Kar) 2.12m; Discus (CWG Q mark 64.56m): 1. Dharamraj Yadav (Military) 55.20m, 2. Bhartpreet Singh (Navy) 54.62m, 3. Oinam Alson Singh (NCOE Patiala) 53.52m; Pole vault (CWG Q mark: 5.25m): 1. Dev Meena (MP Academy) 5.45m (NR, Previous 5.41m, Kuldeep Kumar, 2026), 2. Kuldeep Kumar (MP) 5.45m, 3. Reegan G. (TN) 5.15m.
Girls: 100m hurdles (CWG Q mark 12.67): 1. Nandhini Ok. (TN) 13.24, 2. Pragyan Prasanti Sahu (Odi) 13.33, 3. Anjali C. (JSW) 13.35; Hammer (CWG Q mark 66.80m): 1. Manpreet Kaur (Pun) 59.08m, 2. Kulvinder Kaur (Rly) 57.76m, 3. Divya Shandilya (Odi) 56.41m; 10,000m race stroll (CWG Q mark 44:44.58): 1. Ravina (Har) 44:29.66, 2. Reshma Patel (AIP) 44:57.94, 3. Munita Prajapati (UP) 45:23.92.
Saturday: Males: 10,000m race stroll (CWG Q mark 39:06.28): 1. Sandeep Kumar (Har) 39:51.95, 2. Servin (TN) 40:23.22, 3. Paramjeet Singh Bisht (Utk) 40:51.65.
Revealed – Might 24, 2026 09:43 pm IST
