Yokohama [Japan], May 21 (ANI): Indian athlete Shaili Singh clinched a bronze medal as she completed in third place on the Golden Grand Prix 2023 athletics meet within the ladies’s lengthy bounce occasion held in Yokohama, Japan on Sunday.
The Indian athlete Shaili Singh tried a bounce of 6.65m which offered her third cease on the rostrum. Her different jumps have been marked as 6.59m, 6.35m, 6.35m, 6.36m and 6.41m on the Yokohama meet, a World Athletics Continental Tour gold label occasion.
German athlete Maryse Luzolo received the gold medal with an effort of 6.79m. She additionally competed at Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Two-time Commonwealth Games silver medallist Brooke Buschkuehl bagged the silver medal with a 6.77m leap for Australia.
Shaili Singh’s efficiency at Yokohama comes on the again of a stable begin to the 2023 season.
During the Indian Grand Prix 4 athletics meet in Bengaluru which concluded final month, Shaili Singh registered a bounce of 6.76m, her private finest bounce, the second-best by an Indian girl after the legendary athlete Anju Bobby George (6.83m), who additionally occurs to be Shaili’s coach.
During the Bengaluru athletics meet, the Uttar Pradesh athlete additionally made the lower for Hangzhou Asian Games 2023 as she crossed the ladies’s lengthy bounce qualifying normal of 6.45m set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI).
Shaili Singh had burst onto the scene two years again following a a silver medal win on the World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi. (ANI)