CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s Praveen Chitravel qualified for next month’s World championships in Oregon, USA with a distance of 17.18m in the men’s triple jump event of the 61st inter-state National athletics championships at the JN Stadium on Tuesday evening.
The qualification mark set for the Worlds was 17.14m. The 21-year-old’s effort saw him rewrite the meet record of 17.17m set by Punjab’s Arpinder Singh at Lucknow in 2014. Praveen’s effort was the third on the all-time India list.
