Hari Shankar Roy is a talent from the Indian state of West Bengal. He is a young man, born on 4rt April 1986, and is a renowned Indian track and field athlete who specializes in the high jump. He also holds the current Indian record of 2.25 metres (7 ft 4.58 in) set on 28th September 2004 in Singapore during the Asian All-Stars Athletic Championship.
Career of Hari Shankar Roy
Hari Shankar Roy, village boy, born in Dhupjhor in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal has made India proud in many occasions. He was born in the year 4th April 1986.
In the year 2003, Hari Shankar participated in the 3rd IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics in Sherbrooke in Canada. There, after failing to clear 1.95 m, he was eliminated in the qualifying round. In July 2004 during the 44th inter-state national athletics meet in Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, he broke the 11-year-old national record in men`s high jump by clearing a height of 2.18 m. The previous mark of 2.17 m, set in 1993 in Bengaluru, stood in the name of Chander Pal Singh of Haryana. In the same meet, Benedict Starly of Tamil Nadu also managed to clear 2.18 m, however, gold was awarded to Shankar Roy on the account of less number of attempts. On 28 September 2004, during the Asian All-Stars Athletic Championship in Singapore, India`s best high jumper broke his own National record with a height of 2.25 m to take the silver behind Hu Tong of China. In 2007, both Hari Shanakar and Benedict Starly sailed past a height of 2.14 m during the 33rd National Games, held in Guwahati. Yet again it was Roy who won the gold on the count-back.
He won the gold medal in the high jump at the 2010 South Asian Games, clearing a height of 2.16 m
