Star Indian lengthy jumper Murali Sreeshankar on Saturday certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics after profitable a silver medal within the Asian Athletics Championships with a moment career-best effort of 8.37m.
The 24-year-old Sreeshankar accomplished the Olympic qualification along with his ultimate spherical bounce of 8.37m. The Paris Games mark is 8.27m and the qualification length started on July 1.
Yu Tang Lin of Chinese Taipei received the gold with a fourth spherical bounce of 8.40m, which is the 3rd preferrred effort on this planet this season.
Sreeshankar has already certified for the Budapest World Championships in August along with his career-best and global second-ranked bounce of 8.41m right through the qualification spherical of the National Inter-State Championships final month.
Earlier, Santhosh Kumar received bronze medal in males’s 400m hurdles with a private preferrred time of 49.09 seconds at the fourth and penultimate day of competitions.
Santhosh clocked the quickest time through 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 preferrred was once 49.49 which he had clocked final yr.
Another Indian Yashas Palaksha had additionally certified for the overall however he didn’t participate.
No Indian has ever received a males’s 400m hurdles gold in Asian Championships. Joseph Abraham’s silver in 2009 version was once the most efficient efficiency through an Indian whilst he additionally received a bronze in 2007. MP Jabir received a bronze every within the final two editions.