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Pole vaulter Dev puts up a record show
The New Indian Express Bengaluru
|May 25, 2026
“I TEXTED Dev Meena on WhatsApp that he would cross the 5.45m mark,” says pole vault coach Ghanshyam even as he was trying to soak in what he just witnessed.
Dev Meena in action.
On a moderately humid Sunday evening at the Birsa Munda Football Stadium, both of Ghanshyam’s wards Meena and Kuldeep Kumar lowered national records in the men’s pole vault final at the National Senior Athletics Federation competition.
They ended with the same mark of 5.45m, breaching the qualification mark for the Commonwealth Games comfortably. The decision over their selection lies with the Athletics Federation of India (AFI).
While Kumar may retain the title as national record holder, it was a redemption of sorts for Meena. Having held the national record over a significant period of time (5.32m in February 2025 to 5.40m in July 2025), he lost the record to Kuldeep when the latter surpassed him at the Asian Indoor championship in Bhubaneswar with a mark of 5.41m.
Dit verhaal komt uit de May 25, 2026-editie van The New Indian Express Bengaluru.
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