Patiala: Long jumper Murli Sreeshankar on Tuesday certified for the Tokyo Olympics by bettering his personal nationwide document with a leap of 8.26m on the second day of the Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships in Patiala. The Olympics qualification mark in males’s lengthy soar occasion is 8.22m.
The 21-year-old Kerala athlete’s 8.26m soar got here in his fifth try as he improved his earlier nationwide document of 8.20m which he had registered in 2018. He started with a 8.02m soar earlier than bettering to 8.04m, 8.07m and eight.09m in his subsequent three jumps earlier than touching 8.26m in his fifth try. He had a no mark (NM) in his last soar.Â
That’s a ticket for #Tokyo2020 for Murli Sreeshankar in that pic.
Sree jumped 8.26m in his fifth try & improved his personal National Record! Prev. document 8.20m
Well accomplished champ!@SonySportsIndia pic.twitter.com/WSgBuWp6hs
— Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) March 16, 2021
Another Kerala jumper Muhammed Anees Yahiya (8m) and S Lokesh (7.60m) of Karnataka took the silver and bronze respectively.Â
Hearty Congratulations to Murli Sreeshankar who has certified for #Tokyo2020 with a nationwide document soar of 8.26m on the Federation Cup. He surpassed his personal document of 8.20m and the Olympic qualifying mark of 8.22 meters! pic.twitter.com/sj1pUadlGf
— Kiren Rijiju (@KirenRijiju) March 16, 2021
Five race walkers (KT Irfan, Sandeep Kumar and Rahul Rohilla in males’s 20km occasion and Bhawana Jat and Priyanka Goswami in ladies’s 20km occasion), two javelin throwers (Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh), Avinash Sable (males’s 3000m steeplechase) and the combined 4x400m relay staff have earlier certified for the Tokyo Olympics.Â
Dhanalakshmi beats Dutee to win 100m gold Â
National document holder Dutee Chand was overwhelmed to second place by S Dhanalakshmi, whereas Hima Das was disqualified after a false begin in a much-anticipated ladies’s 100m dash last within the Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships on Tuesday.
The 22-year-old Dhanalakshmi of Tamil Nadu took the gold by clocking 11.39 seconds forward of Dutee (11.58) of Odisha to grow to be the quickest lady of the championships on the second day of competitions on the NIS Campus. Another Tamil Nadu runner Archana Suseendran was third in 11.76.
This was after Hima, who was operating within the shorter dash races of 100m and 200m as a substitute of her per occasion 400m, was disqualified after a false begin. The much-anticipated last didn’t dwell up to the expectations as Hima was proven the purple card, whereas Dutee and Dhanalakshmi didn’t come anyplace close to the Olympic qualification mark of 11.15 seconds.
Dhanalakshmi had certified for the finals because the quickest runner with a time of 11.38 within the preliminary spherical on Monday and he or she didn’t make any enchancment in her timing on Tuesday. The similar was in case of Dutee, who had run 11.51 on Monday.
Gurindervir Singh of Punjab gained the lads’s 100m last in 10.32 seconds, whereas Elakkiyadasan Kannada of Tamil Nadu (10.43) and Maharashtra’s Satish Krishnakumar (10.56) have been second and third respectively.
National document holder Amiya Kumar Mallick of Odisha completed seventh with a time of 10.75. Gurindervir had clocked a private greatest 10.30 seconds within the semifinals on Monday in a 3rd quickest time by an Indian sprinter.
The Olympics qualification time in males’s 100m is 10.05 seconds.
Veteran M R Poovamma, representing Karnataka, took the gold in ladies’s 400m, successful the ultimate race in 53.57 seconds. Tamil Nadu’s Subha Venkatesan (54.48) and Kiran Pahal of Haryana took the silver and bronze respectively.Â
