With tips from Tejaswin Shankar, Sarvesh Kushare soars to high jump silver

5 min readJul 28, 2026 08:06 PM IST Sarvesh Anil Kushare, of India, poses after winning the silver medal in the men's high jump final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) When high jumper Sarvesh Kushare cleared 2.25 metres after two failed attempts to confirm a silver medal in the men’s high jump, emotions were high at different locations around the world. Thousands of kilometres away in Devargaon, Nashik, the Kushare family felt a sense of relief, while in Spala, Poland, his coach Jithin Thomas, who couldn’t travel to Glasgow, was overjoyed.Sarvesh shed a few tears of joy. Sarvesh won the first major medal of his career and upgraded Tejaswin Shankar’s bronze medal in the high jump from the last edition to silver. He failed to cl