Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar has qualified for Paris 2024 Summer Olympics en route to his silver medal triumph at Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok.
An effort of 8.37m (-1.1) has ensured a silver medal for the 24-year-old athlete.
Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar has qualified for Paris 2024 Summer Olympics en route to his silver medal triumph at Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok.
An effort of 8.37m (-1.1) has ensured a silver medal for the 24-year-old athlete.
Yu Tang Lin of Chinese Taipei notched up 8.40m (+0.3) to pocket the gold medal while his Chinese counterpart Mingkun Zhang sealed the third place with an 8.08m leap.
Murali breached the 8+m on five instances in the competition, becoming the first Indian field athlete to qualify for the big-ticket event in 2024.
8.27m is the qualification benchmark for the upcoming Summer Olympics in the men’s long jump event.
The career-best leap of 8.41m propelled the long-jumper to a Budapest World Championships spot in August. The record came during the qualification stage of the National Inter-State Championships in Bhuvaneshwar.