National record holder Tejaswin Shankar advanced to the final of the 2018 Commonwealth Games high jump competition after finishing ninth in the qualifying round in Gold Coast on Monday. (CWG live updates)Shankar finished a joint fifth in Group A and ninth overall. The 21-year-old Shankar is a Youth Commonwealth Games gold-medallist. He had qualified for the Games by claiming a national record of 2.28 m during the Federation Cup last month. However, MR Poovamma failed to move ahead, clocking 53.72sec in her heat to finish 24h overall.

Source: Hindustan Times April 09, 2018 05:37 UTC