Tejaswin Shankar bettered his own national record in decathlon by scoring 7826 points to finish fourth at the Wieslaw Czapiewski Memorial 2025 athletics meet in Poland, which concluded on Sunday.
The 26-year-old Indian athlete improved on his previous personal best of 7666 points which earned him a silver medal at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou and saw him break Bharatinder Singh’s national record which had stood since 2011.
At Poland, Tejaswin Shankar finished fourth overall. Czechia’s Ondrej Kopecky set a meet record of 8254 points to win the title, edging out compatriot Vilém Stráský (8136) and Estonia’s Risto Lillemets (8107).
The Indian athlete led the pack after the first day of competition on Saturday with 4292 points but fell off the ladder on the second day.
Tejaswin Shankar, who was a high jumper before shifting to decathlon in 2022 and still holds the national record of 2.29m in the event, expectedly aced both jump events (high and long).
He also posted new personal bests of 4:31.80 and 11.01 in the 1500m and 100m races, respectively.
This was also Tejsawin Shankar’s first major competitive decathlon outing on European soil.
Earlier this year, Tejaswin Shankar won a silver medal at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025 in Gumi, the Republic of Korea, to improve on the bronze he managed at Bangkok 2023.