Commonwealth Games 2018: Men's High Jump, Tejaswin Shankar leads the way for India, Live Updates

Tejaswin Shankar is all set to get his campaign underway at 4pm.

Updated: 09 April 2018 07:15 IST - Published: April, 09 2018 01:49 AM IST

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Tejaswin clears 2.21m and will represent India in the event on the finals on Day 7

The high jump finals will take place on 11th of April

IT'S OFFICIAL! TEJASWIN HAS QUALIFIED FOR THE FINALS

The event has concluded. Waiting for the official list to confirm the finalists. As things stand, Tejaswin will be in the finals on the 11th of April.

Qualification for the final is looking highly likely for Tejaswin as 7 athletes out of 20 have already bowed out

The 19-year-old clears 2.21m on his second attempt to move on to 5th place for now

TEJASWIN CLEARS 2.21m!

A lot of athletes stuck on the 2.21m height.

Tejaswin fails to clear 2.21 in his first attempt

Canadian Michael Mason fails to do so in his first attempt

2.21m is the height the bar is set for now. Brandon Starc, Jamal Wilson, and David Smith have already cleared it

Meanwhile all the remaining athletes have cleared 2.18m as well

Shankar clears 2.18m and finds himself in 4th position

SHANKAR CLEARS 2.18m!

Breyton Poole of South Africa, Brandon Starc of Australia, and Manjula Wijesekara of Sri Lanka have all failed to clear 2.18m in their first attempts

2.18m seems to be the height athletes are going for this time around

Remember qualification will depend on either a clearance of 2.27m or by coming into the top 12

There are 6 athletes currently in the 1st position. All of them have cleared 2.15m in their first attempts. Tejaswin is 7th on the board because he took two tries to clear the same height.

TEJASWIN CLEARS 2.15M!

He fails to clear 2.15m in his first attempt. He still has two more attempts left to clear the bar

Shankar is up next

Athletes are clearing 2.15m now and Tejaswin will have to do so too to keep up

Shankar currently holds the national record for a clearance of 2.28m

Tejaswin cleared 2.10m. There is qualification if an athlete is able to clear 2.27m or is one of the 12 best athletes out of 20.

Tejaswin clears 2.10 in his first attempt as well. He is joint top as things stand

Wilson from Bahamas is up next. He gets the crowd behind him and clears 2.05m. Handfield, does so as well.

Kaiwalu is out after he is unable to clear the bar in 3 attempts.

The first athlete Handfied clears 2.00m easily. Next up is Kaiwalu. He is unsuccessful in his first attempt.

The best 12 will be selected for the next round

Shankar will go 10th in the Group A

The Games recoed in high jump is 2.36 while the world record is 2.45

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Good Moning all! High Jump qualification involving Tesjaswin Shankar is about to start

India’s top high jumper Tejaswin Shankar is all set to get the country’s athletics campaign underway at the Commonwealth Games today.

So far, Weightlifting has been the most successful contingent for the Indians, bringing home six gold medals medals from the Games, with just four days being over.

The likes of Mirabai Chanu, Sanjita Chanu, Sathish Sivalingam, Ragala Vekat Rahul and Seema are the ones who have won gold for India.

Sunday saw the addition of more spots, as Manu Bhaker, and Heena Sidhu were the two shooters who ended the Indian weightlifters’ dominance, as they won a silver and a gold in the Women’s 10m Air Rifle event.

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