India’s Selva P Thirumaran finished second to bag the first ever triple jump silver by an Indian athlete at any level of the World Championships, when he registered a 16.15m effort in Cali U20 Championships.
It was India’s third medal of the ongoing U20 World Championships.
U20 World’s:
SELVA THIRUMARAN BAGS 🥈 FOR 🇮🇳 with his PB effort of 16.15m => India’s 3️⃣rd🏅of the event
SO CLOSE YET SO FAR – Vivek threw his PB (72.17m) but missed the podium as he finished 4th(Javelin)!
NANDINI AGASARA reaches W100mH FINALS,created yet another NU20R [13.34s] pic.twitter.com/ZGipiyN0MU
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Edition ATHLETE EVENT MEDAL WON PERFORMANCE 2002 – Jamaica Seema Antil Discus Throw Women BRONZE 55.83m 2014 – USA Navjeet Kaur Dhillon Discus Throw Women Bronze 56.36m 2016 – Poland Neeraj Chopra Javelin Throw Men Gold 86.48m (U20 WR) 2018 -…
