Pune: Shot putter Manpreet Kaur of Punjab smashed the national record in the girls under-20 category with a hurl of 15.44m on Day I of the 8th National Federation Cup junior athletics on Thursday. She erased Seema Antil’s six-year-old record of 14.89m.

In the boys’ high jump, Tamil Nadu’s L. Yogiraj set a meet record of 2.14m, beating Omveer Singh’s 2.10m set in 2001.

G.M. Aishwarya of Karnataka jumped 5.87m to erase M.A. Prajusha’s four-year-old meet record of 5.71m in the final of the girls under-18 long jump at 5th National Youth meet being held concurrently.

Pallavi Sukumar and Asha Roy of Bengal secured second and third places, respectively.