Tamil Nadu’s Pradeep Senthilkumar broke former Asian youth champion Beant Singh’s seven-year-old 800m meet record at the 20 th National Federation Cup junior (under-20) athletics here on Saturday. The top three in the event achieved the qualification time for the coming under-20 Worlds in Colombia.
Another Tamil Nadu youngster, Selva Prabhu had one legal triple jump (15.84m) but that was enough to bring him the gold and the under-20 Worlds ticket.
Meanwhile, Karnataka’s junior international Priya H. Mohan — who has already booked her under-20 Worlds berths in the 200 and 400m — won the 200m comfortably with silver medallist Priyanka Sikarwar of UP also making the cut.
