Competing with a pole vault borrowed from the organisers, Sunil Kumar won the decathlon gold medal with his personal best performance in the Asian U-20 Athletics Championship here today.
The 18-year-old suffered a setback much before taking the field when a South Korean airline and Air India barred him from carrying his pole due to “technical issues” relating to the five-metre length of the equipment. But that did not stop Sunil from bagging gold as he won the 10-event competition with a personal best tally of 7,003 points on the penultimate day of the competition.
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