Tejaswin Shankar Height, Age, Girlfriend, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tejaswin Shankar

• Tejaswin Shankar is an Indian monitor and subject athlete and an accountant who focuses on excessive bounce occasions. He is understood for breaking Hari Shankar’s nationwide file of two.25 metres with a bounce of two.26 metres on the Junior National Championship in Coimbatore in November 2016. On 4 August 2022, Tejaswin received a bronze medal with the mark of two.22m at Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham.

 

• Tejaswin is the primary Indian to win a excessive bounce medal at Commonwealth Games.

Tejaswin Shankar creates historical past. He wins our first excessive bounce medal within the CWG. Congratulations to him for successful the Bronze medal. Proud of his efforts. Best needs for his future endeavours. May he preserve attaining success. @TejaswinShankar pic.twitter.com/eQcFOtSU58

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 4, 2022

• During his childhood days, Tejaswin aspired to be a bowler. He used to look at movies of quick bowlers, Wasim Akram and Mohammad Amir, to practise their fashion of bowling. He was additionally part of his college’s cricket workforce until the eighth commonplace.
  

  Tejaswin Shankar enjoying cricket

• During his college days, Tejaswin’s bodily training instructor, Sunil Kumar, suggested him to check out the excessive bounce pit. In an interview, his coach talked about how he noticed him and mentioned,
  

  He was warming up with a bunch of boys and I seen he ran with a pure bounce. Not everybody has this bounce. I requested him if he needs to provide excessive bounce a shot.”

  

  Tejaswin Shankar coaching along with his coach Sunil Kumar

• In 2015, Tejaswin defeated junior nationwide champion Jeo Jose at CBSE National Athletic Championship in Varanasi. In an interview, speaking about his pleasure after defeating a nationwide champion, Tejaswin mentioned,
  

  I cleared 1.84 metres and received the gold. I had overwhelmed a nationwide champion who was taller than me, who was extra skilled and had a greater private finest. This was after I realised I had it in me to be a excessive jumper,”

• Tejaswin’s father, Harishankar, who was a lawyer, was not in favour of his son’s curiosity in athletics. He needed him to check legislation and take over the family agency. Harishankar believed that aside from all of the sports activities, cricket was the good selection, and he needed Tejaswin to reap the benefits of his top and pursue his profession in cricket as a bowler.

• In 2016, Tejaswin broke the 12-year-old nationwide senior excessive bounce file in Junior National Championship, Coimbatore.

 

• In 2016, Tejaswin completed sixth on the seventeenth Asian Junior Athletics Championship in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with a leap of two.07m

• Tejaswin ranked third within the under-20 jumper class within the International Association of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF) world record of 2016.

• In an interview, Tejaswin’s coach and expertise scout Nallusamy Annavi talked about him and mentioned,
  

  Shankar has the peak however he additionally has power and pace. There are many tall jumpers however top alone shouldn’t be sufficient. You should be robust — a form of explosive energy — and also you want pace. And he has all these attributes. I’ve seen many jumpers over time however no person in latest reminiscence has the particular qualities Shankar has.”

• Tejaswin turned the second Indian after Somdev Devvarman, a former skilled Indian tennis participant, to win two National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championships in 2018 and 2022 within the excessive bounce class.

Shankar brings excessive bounce title again to Manhattan! 🏆

📰 https://t.co/iSxaQ694ZQ#KStateTF x #NCAATF pic.twitter.com/kInqndl2lF

— Okay-State Track (@OkayStateTFXC) June 11, 2022

• In 2016, Tejaswin suffered from a slipped disc, and he was bedridden for six months. Because of his damage, he was not in a position to take part within the 2016 World Junior Championship. Talking about his damage, he mentioned,
  

  I’m simply recovering from a slip disc. I used to be bed-ridden for six months from January to June. There have been occasions after I thought I couldn’t make it right here. But right here I’m, all smiles and I may break the meet file of two.23m. My sponsors JSW Sports and coach had religion in me. If not for them I’d nonetheless have been bed-ridden. My coach believes that I can bounce even when am lacking a leg.”

• In July 2017, Tejaswin competed within the National Inter-State Sports Meet in Guntur with a mark of two.23m.
  

  Tejaswin Shankar on the National Inter-State Sports Meet in Guntur

• Tejaswin certified for the finals on the 2018 Commonwealth Games, held on the Carrara Stadium in Gold Coast, Australia.
  

  Tejaswin Shankar at Commonwealth Games 2018

• Shankar took a leap of two.28 metres on the twenty second Federation Cup Indian Championship in March 2018 on the National Institute of Sports, Patiala.

Tejaswin Shankar matches his nationwide file of two.28m within the excessive bounce on the Federation Cup. pic.twitter.com/kv0YeSrePV

— jonathan selvaraj (@jon_selvaraj) March 7, 2018

• Tejaswin participated within the Texas Tech Corky-Crofoot Shootout Athletics Meet, leaping 2.29m in April 2018 within the United States.

• In June 2018, Tejaswin turned the third Indian to win the United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Track and Field Championship. The first Indian to win the title was Mohinder Singh Gill, he received within the triple bounce class, and the second Indian to win the championship was Vikas Gowda; he received within the discus throw class in 2006.

HE DID IT! #KStateTF

Tejaswin Shankar is the lads’s excessive bounce NATIONAL CHAMPION, clearing 2.24m/7-04.25 on his LAST try

The successful bounce ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/oMzqgtMopo

— Okay-State Track (@OkayStateTFXC) June 9, 2018

• He participated within the West Regional Championship in 2019 on the Sacramento State University, California.
  

  Tejaswin Shankar at West Regional Championship 2019

• In June 2022, Tejaswin competed within the World Athletics Championship in Eugene, Oregon with a leap of two.27m.
  

  Tejaswin Shankar at World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon

• In June 2022, Shankar was named the Midwest Region Men’s Field Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
  

  Tejaswin Shankar because the Midwest Region Men’s Field Athlete of the Year

• In 2023, Shankar received the silver medal within the males’s decathlon on the Asian Games with 7666 factors; it marked India’s first males’s medal within the decathlon after 1974.
  

  Tejaswin Shankar after successful the silver medal on the 2023 Asian Games