On his solution to successful the gold medal within the heptathlon, Shankar collected 5993 factors to higher his personal nationwide indoor mark of 5650 factors set in 2021 within the USA. File
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Tejaswin Shankar gained the lads’s heptathlon occasion to clinch India’s lone gold because the nation ended the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships marketing campaign with 5 medals right here on Sunday (February 8, 2026).
India completed total sixth within the medals tally. China topped the chart with 34 medals — 10 gold, 11 silver and 13 bronze.
On his solution to successful the gold medal within the heptathlon, Shankar collected 5993 factors to higher his personal nationwide indoor mark of 5650 factors set in 2021 within the USA.
Pooja (silver in excessive soar), Tajinderpal Singh Toor (silver in shot put) and Ancy Sojan (bronze in lengthy soar) have been different medal winners on Sunday (February 8, 2026).
On opening day on Friday (February 6, 2026), India’s excessive jumper Aadrash Ram Jothi Shankar had gained a bronze.
Shankar, who was main on Day 1, continued his good kind within the subsequent three occasions — 60m hurdles, pole vault and 1000m — on Sunday (February 8, 2026).
Within the 60m hurdles, Shankar clocked a time of 8.02 seconds to earn 977 factors. With two occasions to go, the Indian athlete was practically 485 factors forward of his nearest rival.
Shankar was fourth in pole vault with a top of 4.20m. He earned 673 factors to extend his tally to 5163 factors. In 1000m, the final occasion of the day, Shankar completed second with a time of two:43.91 (830 factors) to extend his whole to 5993 factors.
Shankar additionally holds the nationwide decathlon (outside) document of 7826 factors, set final 12 months in Poland. He additionally gained silver within the decathlon on the 2023 Asian Video games held in China.
Within the males’s shot put, Tajinderpal Singh Toor claimed a silver with a season-best throw of 20.05m.
Toor’s different authorized throws have been 19.49m, 19.85m. His final two makes an attempt have been no marks. China’s Chengyu Chen took the gold with a throw of 20.07m.
Samardeep Singh Gill, the second Indian within the subject, completed fifth with a throw of 18.97m.
Within the ladies’s excessive soar, Pooja clinched a silver with a top of 1.87m.
Ancy Sojan added a bronze on the lengthy soar enviornment. Her finest soar on Sunday (February 8, 2026) was 6.21m. Her different two authorized jumps have been 6.02m and 6.20m.
Moumita Mondal completed sixth within the ladies’s lengthy soar with a distance of 6.01m. Promising lengthy jumper Shahnawaz Khan missed out on a medal as he completed fourth.
Revealed – February 09, 2026 12:44 am IST