Haryana's Ashish Jakhar set a national youth record in boys' hammer throw on the second day of the 12th National Youth Athletics Championships here on Friday.
Ashish hurled the 5kg ball and chain to a new distance of 71.92m on his opening throw and went on to improve it further to 72.04m to stamp his class with fine rotations on the circle to set the first national record of the meet.
The previous national record stood in the name of Haryana's Sukhdev Singh (70.35m) since 2009.