Tumkur, April 25 -- Three national junior records highlighted the second day of the 24th National Junior (U20) Athletics Federation Competition at Tumkur's Mahatma Gandhi Stadium in Karnataka on Saturday. While Army's Asian junior silver medallist Nitin Gupta set a new benchmark in the men's U20 5,000m race walk, Mohammed Ashfaq stole the spotlight by breaking both the national junior and meet records in the men's 400m, according to a release from the Athletics Federation of India (AFI).

Nitin Gupta became the first Indian race walker to break the 19-minute barrier in the junior men's 5,000m race walk. On his way to gold, he clocked 18:54.37, lowering his own national record of 19:24.48 set last year in Patna. His Saturday's performance ...