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Top Indian lengthy jumper Murali Sreeshankar secured a creditable third place in the Paris Diamond League with a leap of 8.09m, his maiden top-three end in the distinguished one-day assembly collection.
Sreeshankar additionally grew to become the one third Indian to complete in top-three of a Diamond League after Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and former discus thrower Vikas Gowda.
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The Commonwealth Games silver medallist Sreeshankar achieved his greatest leap of the day in his third try on Friday evening. His 8.09m effort was beneath his season’s better of 8.18m, which he recorded whereas successful gold in an occasion in Greece final month. The 24-year-old has a private better of 8.36m that got here final yr..
Olympic champion and World No. 1 Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece took the highest spot along with his fifth-round leap of 8.13m, simply 4 cm higher than Sreeshankar. Switzerland’s World Championship bronze medallist Simon Ehammer completed second along with his fourth-round leap of 8.11m.
Sreeshankar’s collection on the Charlety Stadium right here was 7.79m, 7.94m, foul, 7.99m and foul. He was main after the third spherical earlier than Ehammer and Tentoglou went forward.
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The Indian, nevertheless, completed forward of Cuba’s Olympic bronze medallist Maykel Masso (sixth place with 7.83m) and Sweden’s World No. 4 Thobias Montler (seventh with 7.82m) to hitch the unique three-member Diamond League membership.
Olympic champion Chopra is the reigning Diamond League champion in javelin throw after successful the Finals in Zurich final September. He additionally completed on high in Lausanne and grabbed silver in Stockholm final yr earlier than successful the season-opening leg in Doha final month.
Gowda had completed second twice — in New York in 2012 and in Doha in 2014 — and third on two events: Shanghai and Eugene in 2015.
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This was Sreeshankar’s second foray in the Diamond League Meeting collection. He completed sixth in the Monaco leg final yr. With this, Sreeshankar grabbed six qualification factors for the Diamond League Finals of the season to be held in Eugene, USA, in September.
He may also get priceless rating factors in his bid to qualify for the World Championships to be held in Budapest, Hungary, in August. Sreeshankar, who has been coaching in Greece for the final one month, is but to realize the World Championships computerized entry customary of 8.25m and the deadline is July 30.
He had recorded an 8.29m leap in the USA in April however that got here with a +3.1m/s wind help which is above the permissible restrict of +2m/s. However, he can nonetheless qualify by the World Ranking route as he’s on the twentieth spot in the street to Budapest rankings, which would be the foundation to select 36 rivals for the showpiece.
Compatriot Jeswin Aldrin, who’s at the moment second in the season’s high listing ready by World Athletics, has already certified for the World Championships along with his 8.42m nationwide record-breaking effort on the Indian Open Jumps Competition at Bellary, Karnataka, in March.
Sreeshankar is ready to compete in the National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar from June 15-19.
