Indian star long jumper Murali Sreeshankar has qualified for the World Championships after a huge 8.41m effort, a personal best in his very first attempt in the qualifying round at the National Inter-State Athletics Championships on Sunday. The 24-year-old fell short of Jeswin Aldrin’s national record of 8.42m by just 1cm, a record that was set earlier this year.
“The wind reading was fine, it was 1.5m/s. Just short of the national record but I am happy to have made this jump,” Sreeshankar, who was representing Kerala, said after the event.
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Aldrin was second with a best jump of 7.83m while Muhammed Anees Yahiya was third with 7.71m, as 12 long jumpers made it to the final to be held on Monday.
The Asian Games qualifying mark for the men’s long jump is 7.95m. On June 9, Sreeshankar became only the third Indian — after Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and former discus thrower Vikas Gowda — to win a Diamond League medal with a bronze in the Paris leg with an effort of 8.09m.
The men’s long jump qualifying distance for the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August is 8.25m.
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