Paris [France], June 10 (ANI): India’s Murali Sreeshankar completed third within the males’s lengthy bounce occasion with a formidable try of 8.09m on the Paris Diamond League 2023 athletics in France on Saturday.
Murali Sreeshankar’s third attempt resulted in his finest leap of the night time.
The 8.09m effort positioned him second, simply behind Greece’s reigning Olympic and Diamond League champion Miltiadis Tentoglou, who gained the Paris Diamond League with an 8.13m bounce.
However, a foul by S Murali within the fourth attempt to an 8.11m leap by Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer dropped the Indian lengthy jumper to 3rd place. Sreeshankar’s fifth try recorded 7.99m and his sixth run down the observe ended with a foul.
Murali Sreeshankar made his second look within the Diamond League. He completed sixth in Monaco final 12 months with an effort of seven.94m. Last 12 months, he set a private finest leap of 8.36m. Jeswin Aldrin of India holds the nationwide report in males’s lengthy bounce, having jumped 8.42m earlier this 12 months.
With a season-best bounce of 8.18m, the 24-year-old Indian athlete gained a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze label occasion at Kallithea, Greece final month and certified for the Asian Games in China.
In Paris, ten members competed within the males’s lengthy bounce occasion. Maykel Masso of Cuba, who gained bronze in Tokyo in 2020, had a disappointing day, ending sixth with a finest leap of seven.83m. (ANI)