Basant Meghwal Wins Silver For India In High Jump At World Athletics U20 Championships
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News sports other-sports Basant Meghwal Wins Silver For India In High Jump At World Athletics U20 Championships Basant Meghwal Wins Silver For India In High Jump At World Athletics U20 Championships Published By, Last Updated: August 09, 2026, 09:25 IST The 19-year-old sailed over 2.21m, his lifetime best, to clinch the silver medal on the fourth and penultimate day of the championships on Saturday. Rapid Read Basant wins silver medal for India. (Picture Credit: X/@afiindia) Basant Kumar Meghwal won a silver in men’s high jump event on Sunday (August 9) with a personal best effort to take India’s medal tally to two at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Eugene. The 19-year-old from Anupgarh, a border town in the Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan, sailed over 2.21m, his lifetime best, to clinch the silver medal on the fourth and penultimate day of the championships on Saturday. BASANT CREATES HISTORY | WINS 🥈At World U20 Athletics Championship pic.twitter.com/axrUi2xY4Y — IndiaSportsHub (@IndiaSportsHub) August 9, 2026 Algeria’s Younes Ayachi won the gold while Great Britain’s Otis Poole took the bronze.
All the three medallists could only clear 2.21m but failed all their three attempts to sail over 2.24m. The positions were thus decided on countback based on the number of attempts to clear the previous height. Ayachi cleared 2.21m in his first jump, while Meghwal and Poole did the same in their second and third attempts respectively. “Some dreams you can’t measure in metres. At 2.21m, a young man from India reached higher than almost anyone in the world — and touched something bigger than a bar. Basant. Silver. World U20 Champion medallist. Every missed jump he shrugged off. Every height he answered. And when it mattered most, he refused to fall. Somewhere back home, a family is in tears. A coach is roaring. A village believes a little more today. This is what belief looks like. This is Basant," Athletics Federation of India tweeted. 🇮🇳🥈 Some dreams you can’t measure in metres.At 2.21m, a young man from India reached higher than almost anyone in the world — and touched something bigger than a bar.
Basant. Silver. World U20 Champion medallist. 🥈 Every missed jump he shrugged off. Every height he answered.… pic.twitter.com/uAWv0EpkXL — Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) August 9, 2026 Earlier, Ashish Yadav had won a silver in the men’s javelin throw event to open India’s medal account on the third day. Yadav’s third round throw of 74.09m fetched him the silver medal while T Dharanidharan, the other Indian in the fray in the men’s javelin throw finals on Friday, finished sixth with 72.35m. Yadav’s effort was 40cm short of his personal best of 74.49m, which he had recorded during the Indian Open Throws Competition in Patiala in March. The 19-year-old Yadav is the second Indian, after two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra, to win a silver in the event. Chopra had won gold and set the still-standing world junior record of 86.48m in the 2016 edition in Poland. (With inputs from PTI) News18 Newsletter Handpicked stories, in your inbox A newsletter with the best of our journalism submit About the Author Harshit Bisht Senior Sub-editor Harshit Bisht is a sports journalist at CNN-News18, where he has been covering cricket, football, and major sporting events from around the world since July 1, 2024.
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