Fontvieille [Monaco], July 22 (ANI): India’s Praveen Chithravel completed sixth within the males’s triple bounce occasion on the Monaco Diamond League 2023 athletics meet within the French principality on Saturday. On his Diamond League debut, the 22-year-old registered his finest bounce on his fifth and closing effort. Praveen Chithravel’s different jumps measured 15.69m, 16.44m, 16.54m and 16.32m. Praveen Chithravel didn’t surpass the 17-meter mark for the primary time in 4 outside meets this 12 months. The triple jumper from India was competing once more after lacking practically a month as a consequence of damage.
Chithravel holds the triple bounce nationwide report at 17.37m attained in Cuba in May, assembly the qualifying commonplace for the World Athletics Championships to be held in August in Budapest, Hungary.
Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso, a bronze medalist on the Tokyo Olympics and a two-time world championship medalist gained the triple bounce competitors with a leap of 17.70 metres.
Chithravel obtained three qualification rating factors for the Diamond League Final in 2023 as a result of final result in Monaco. He is at present ranked twelfth, forward of fellow countryman Abdulla Aboobacker, who participated within the Florence Diamond League.
For collaborating in every Diamond League leg, athletes obtain factors moderately than medals. At the conclusion of all legs, the very best eight rivals in every occasion will advance to the Diamond League Final, the place they’ll contend for the championship medal.
The competitors in Monaco, additionally known as the Herculis EBS, was the ninth leg of the Diamond League 2023 season. The sequence will wrap up with the two-day closing in Eugene, the USA on September 16 and 17. (ANI)