Fayetteville, Jan. 31 -- India's Pradeep Senthilkumar broke the national men's 800 metre short track indoor record during the Razorback Invitational 2026 held at Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Saturday.

The 22-year-old clocked 1:48.09s to outdo his own previous best of 1:48.60s made during February last year at the same venue. He finished seventh in the competition, but nonetheless, he could take a flight back to India with a fresh national record to his name, as per Olympics.com.

Pradeep achieved a second-place finish in the Heat 3 and had seventh place finish in the field. Jams Harding (1:46.83), Elliott Cook (1:46.94) and Matthew Erickson (1:47.26) took the podium spots in the race.

The Razorback Invitational is a category F event, comi...