NEW DELHI: Star India Murali Sreesankar certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics on Saturday after bagging a silver medal within the Asian Athletics Championships To set up Bangkok.
The qualification mark for the Paris Games is 8.27m and Sreeshankar produced a last spherical bounce of 8.37m to seal his berth for the thirty third Olympics subsequent yr. The qualification length for the Paris Games commenced on 1st July.
The effort on the Asian athletics Championships is Sreeshankar’s moment career-best.
Yu Tang Lin of Chinese Taipei gained the gold with a fourth spherical bounce of 8.40m, which is the 3rd perfect effort on this planet this season.
Sreeshankar has already certified for the Budapest World Championships in August together with his career-best and global second-ranked bounce of 8.41m all the way through the qualification spherical of the National Inter-State Championships remaining month.
Earlier, Santhosh Kumar gained bronze medal in males’s 400m hurdles with a non-public perfect time of 49.09 seconds at the fourth and penultimate day of competitions.
Santhosh clocked the quickest time by means of an Indian in males’s 400m hurdles this yr when he completed in the back of gold medal winner Mohammed Hemeida Bassem (48.64 seconds) of Qatar and Yusaku Kodama (48.96) of Japan.
The 25-year-old’s earlier perfect used to be 49.49 which he had clocked remaining yr.
Another Indian Yashas Palaksha had additionally certified for the general however he didn’t participate.
No Indian has ever gained a males’s 400m hurdles gold in Asian Championships. Joseph Abraham’s silver in 2009 version used to be the most efficient efficiency by means of an Indian whilst he additionally gained a bronze in 2007. MP Jabir gained a bronze every within the remaining two editions.
(With inputs from PTI)
The qualification mark for the Paris Games is 8.27m and Sreeshankar produced a last spherical bounce of 8.37m to seal his berth for the thirty third Olympics subsequent yr. The qualification length for the Paris Games commenced on 1st July.
The effort on the Asian athletics Championships is Sreeshankar’s moment career-best.
Yu Tang Lin of Chinese Taipei gained the gold with a fourth spherical bounce of 8.40m, which is the 3rd perfect effort on this planet this season.
Sreeshankar has already certified for the Budapest World Championships in August together with his career-best and global second-ranked bounce of 8.41m all the way through the qualification spherical of the National Inter-State Championships remaining month.
Earlier, Santhosh Kumar gained bronze medal in males’s 400m hurdles with a non-public perfect time of 49.09 seconds at the fourth and penultimate day of competitions.
Santhosh clocked the quickest time by means of an Indian in males’s 400m hurdles this yr when he completed in the back of gold medal winner Mohammed Hemeida Bassem (48.64 seconds) of Qatar and Yusaku Kodama (48.96) of Japan.
The 25-year-old’s earlier perfect used to be 49.49 which he had clocked remaining yr.
Another Indian Yashas Palaksha had additionally certified for the general however he didn’t participate.
No Indian has ever gained a males’s 400m hurdles gold in Asian Championships. Joseph Abraham’s silver in 2009 version used to be the most efficient efficiency by means of an Indian whilst he additionally gained a bronze in 2007. MP Jabir gained a bronze every within the remaining two editions.
(With inputs from PTI)