M. Sreeshankar in motion
| Photo Credit: File photograph
With the Asian Games in Hangzhou some 4 months away, the Chinese are closely watching the Indian long jumpers and their beautiful performances.
National record-holder Jeswin Aldrin, along with his 8.42m on the Indian Jumps Open in Ballari in March, is at the moment the long bounce world chief whereas M. Sreeshankar completed No. 3 on the planet listing final 12 months along with his 8.36m.
There had been many Chinese on the MVA High Performance Meet in Chula Vista on Sunday the place Sreeshankar received the gold comfortably.
“The Chinese have recorded almost all my jumps, the videos were taken by the science head of their jumps group,” Sreeshankar, the Commonwealth Games silver medallist, instructed The Hindu from the US on Monday.
WORLD CHAMPION LYING LOW AGAIN
China’s Jianan Wang is the present World champion, he’s additionally the defending Asian Games champion having received the gold in Jakarta 2018. In reality, the Chinese have received the long bounce gold on the final two editions of the Asiad.
But Wang, who did only one outside competitors final 12 months the place he produced a mediocre 7.67m earlier than stunningly grabbing the World title with 8.36m in Oregon 2022, has as soon as once more been quiet the previous couple of months. He is but to open his outside season however has carried out an 8.09m indoors in March again dwelling.
Some 15 Chinese athletes competed in Chula Vista on Sunday and Weidong Ma and Huang Huafeng took silver and bronze behind Sreeshankar.
“I spoke to the Chinese science team head. The Chinese, around 40 of them, have been in the US since November,” stated Sreeshankar.
“And after the Chinese trials for the Worlds and Asiad in June, they will go to Europe. The Asian Games are on and they are all set with their preparations.”
With Aldrin breaking Sreeshankar’s nationwide file (8.36m), the Kerala long jumper feels that it’s going to do a world of excellent for the game.
SIX MORE CENTIMETRES!
“Six more centimetres. He has raised the bar to a new level, it is my turn to face that now, we will be going back and forth. It is a very good thing for jumps, it will automatically improve all the others too,” stated Sreeshankar who’s coached by his dad S. Murali.
Sreeshankar in all probability had the file on his thoughts at Chula Vista when he opened his sequence with a wind-assisted 8.29m.
“Should have been a very good day, especially after the first jump. But the conditions were very cold, it was 15 degrees. And it was windy too, so I couldn’t adjust to the conditions properly. My body felt frozen,” stated Sreeshankar.
