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Pole vault national record bettered twice as Dev, Kuldeep try to outdo each other | Sports News

Pole vault national record bettered twice as Dev, Kuldeep try to outdo each other | Sports News

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3 min readUpdated: May 25, 2026 12:31 AM IST Day Three of Federation Cup looked to be meandering unlike Saturday when three national records were broken, till pole vaulters Dev Meena and Kuldeep Yadav took centrestage. The duo, who train together at the Madhya Pradesh Academy, broke the national record twice and equalled it once. It was Meena who first cleared 5.42m, improving the national mark set by Kuldeep earlier this year by a centimetre. Minutes later, Kuldeep went past the 5.45m mark to reclaim the national record. Meena was not done for the day and equalled the mark to share bragging rights. Both attempted 5.50m but couldn’t clear the mark. Meena won the gold medal on countback as his second-best attempt was 5.42m while Kuldeep’s was 5.30m. “We had the 5.50m mark in mind when we came here. We went for that but I’m glad that our boys could improve the national record,” said Ghanshyam Yadav, the coach who trains both athletes. Training together and competing against each other have made both better at …

Baranica Elangovan breaks pole vault national record with a 4.22m mark | Sport-others News

Baranica Elangovan breaks pole vault national record with a 4.22m mark | Sport-others News

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2 min readMay 3, 2026 10:49 PM IST Tamil Nadu pole vaulter Baranica Elangovan has found a new happy hunting ground at the Kalinga Indoor Athletics Stadium as she improved her five-week-old own national record during the inaugural Indian Indoor Open Combined Events and Pole Vault Competition on Sunday. Baranica cleared 4.23m to better her own previous national record of 4.22m set at the inaugural edition of National Indoor Championships held in the last week of March at the same venue. The 29-year-old crossed 4.23m on her third attempt.”It was another good day for me,” said Baranica who has shifted base from Tamil Nadu to Bhubaneswar. Earlier in March, she crossed the 4.22m mark to break it for the first time. “It was an emotional moment for us because we have been trying so hard for the past three years to break the national record,” Baranica had told the Indian Express. Her dream to become the best pole vaulter in the country didn’t come true earlier because of an injury setback. Six years ago an …

Kuldeep Kumar breaks Pole Vault national record, vaults 5.41m | Sport-others News

Kuldeep Kumar breaks Pole Vault national record, vaults 5.41m | Sport-others News

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2 min readMay 2, 2026 08:54 PM IST Indian pole vaulter rewrote the men’s national record on Saturday after recording 5.41m mark at the inaugural Indian Indoor Open Combined Events and Pole Vault Competition in Bhubaneswar. He cleared the mark of 5.41m in his first attempt and decided to go for 5.46m but failed to cross that mark. He broke the national recod of 5.40m set last year by Dev Kumar Meena and also improved the national indoor record of 5.30m set earlier in March by Reegan G of Tamil Nadu. This was first time that Kuldeep has participated in an indoor Pole Vault competition. “It was a good day for me. It was a good experience today,” said Kuldeep Kumar after making the national record. Dev, the former record holder and one of the best pole vaulters in the country, struggled to get his rhythm going and settled for a bronze medal this time with a mark of 5.20m. He tried thrice at the 5.35m but failed. Meanwhile, former Indoor NR holder, Reegan G …

Pavithra Vengatesh clinches pole vault gold with personal best effort

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Pavithra Vengatesh of Tamil Nadu came close to breaking the national record but fell short of the mark as she clinched the gold medal in the women’s pole vault at the third India Open Jumps competition in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Pavithra, however, returned with a personal best effort of 4.15m, falling 7cm short of Roy Meena Paulraj’s national record of 4.21m achieved in 2022 at the National Open athletics championships. Pavithra had crossed the 4.22m thrice, but all of her efforts were red-flagged by the line judge. In a field, where no other athlete managed to cross the four metres mark, the 22-year-old, who won the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships silver in 2023, clinched the yellow metal by bettering her PB of 4.10m by 5cm. Mariya Jaison of Kerala bagged the silver medal with a 3.80m jump, which is much lower than her personal best of 3.90m. Sindhushree G of Karnataka won the bronze medal. This feat is particularly rewarding for Pavithra, who was forced to miss the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships held in Tehran …