NEW DELHI, July 27:
Tejaswin Shankar broke his own national record in decathlon while finishing fourth at the Wieslaw Czapiewski Memorial in Poland on Sunday and became the first Indian athlete to score 7800 points in the gruelling 10 discipline event.
He amassed 7826 points in the competition, a World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold level meet.
In the last even — 1500m — Shankar set a personal best of 4:31.80. Shankar held the decathlon national record at 7666 points, achieved at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. (PTI)
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