Overview
- Baranica Elangovan set the Indian indoor women’s pole vault record at 4.23m at the Bhubaneswar Indoor Stadium during the Indian Indoor Open on Sunday.
- She cleared the bar on her third attempt, edging past the 4.22m record she set at the same venue in late March.
- Other titles at the meet went to N Thowfeeq, who won the men’s heptathlon with 5,350 points, and Odisha’s Purnima Hembram, who took the women’s pentathlon with 3,835.
- Some outlets reported that Kuldeep Kumar cleared 5.41m to surpass the men’s national pole vault record, a result that awaits official confirmation.
- Elangovan has moved her training base to Bhubaneswar and says rehab at the Abhinav Bindra Targeting Performance Centre after ACL surgery helped her return to steady form.