Tejaswin Shankar

Tejaswin Shankar
nation	India
birthday	21st December 1998 (age 21)
place of birth	Varanasi , India
size	193 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.29 m
status	active
last change: July 25, 2018

Tejaswin Shankar (born December 21, 1998 in Varanasi ) is an Indian high jumper .

Athletic career

Tejaswin Shankar gained his first international experience at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Cali , where he finished eighth with 2.07 m. He then won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia with 2.14 m. In 2016, he failed to cross the starting height at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha . At the Junior Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City , he finished seventh with 2.07 m. In 2018 he took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time and finished sixth there with 2.24 m.

He is a student at Kansas State University .

Personal best

• High jump (open air): 2.29 m, April 27, 2018 in Lubbock ( Indian record )
  • High jump (hall): 2.28 m, February 24, 2018 in Ames ( Indian record )

Web links

• Tejaswin Shankar in the database of World Athletics (English)