New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): Following his victory within the males’s lengthy bounce competitors on the Qosanov Memorial 2025 athletics assembly in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Saturday, Murali Sreeshankar of India continued his successful streak to a few as he made his comeback.
The 26-year-old Indian athlete made a successful leap of seven.94m on his opening try to safe the highest spot on the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze label (class C) meet, based on Olympics.com
The runner-up was the Philippines’ Janry Ubas with 7.53 meters, adopted by Azerbaijan’s Nazim Babayev with 7.48 meters. After struggling a knee harm in April earlier 12 months, this was Sreeshankar’s third athletics competitors since his comeback.
Despite incomes a quota for the earlier 12 months’s worldwide extravaganza in France, he underwent surgical procedure, which induced him to overlook the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Last month, Sreeshankar returned to the tracks by successful the Indian Open in Pune with an 8.05-meter bounce. He then completed first on the Meeting Maia Cidade do Desporto in Portugal with a 7.75-meter try.
Sreeshankar’s final worldwide look earlier than harm was a silver-medal end on the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China.
Sreeshankar is scheduled to compete throughout Europe and Central Asia till August 14, aiming to qualify for the World Championships in Tokyo this September.
The males’s lengthy bounce qualification commonplace for Tokyo 2025 is about at 8.27 meters. (ANI)