Tokyo [Japan], September 14 (ANI): Sarvesh Kushare etched his identify in historical past on the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Tokyo after changing into the primary Indian excessive jumper to qualify for the ultimate on the planet meet on Sunday.
Kushare earned a spot within the 13-player closing by crusing over the two.25m mark to complete within the prime 12 of the lads’s excessive leap qualification spherical. While Kushare stormed into his maiden closing, Tokyo champion Gianmarco Tamberi completed exterior the qualification zone. The Italian’s greatest try remained 2.16m after his three makes an attempt, falling wanting the two.21m mark.
Kushare will probably be eager on including one other medal to India’s medal haul on the World Championships. India holds three medals, consisting of Anju Bobby George’s bronze within the lengthy leap at Paris 2003, Neeraj Chopra’s silver within the javelin at Oregon 2022, and his historic gold at Budapest 2023.
India’s marketing campaign on the World Athletics Championships kickstarted on Saturday within the 35 km race stroll occasion, with Priyanka Goswami registering a Twenty fourth-place end within the girls’s occasion. Meanwhile, Sandeep Kumar completed twenty third within the males’s occasion.
Ram Baboo, nevertheless, confronted disqualification. The World Championships are being held in Tokyo from Thursday and can run until September 21. This is the twentieth version of the competitors. The Indian contingent encompasses a whole of 19 gamers, together with 14 males and 5 girls gamers, who will probably be vying for medals in 15 completely different occasions, 11 for males and 4 for girls.
The present javelin throw world champion, Neeraj Chopra, who turned the first-ever Indian to land a gold on the world meet, is the headliner within the staff, alongside lengthy leap star Murali Sreeshankar, girls’s javelin nationwide record-holder Annu Rani and rising star Animesh Kujur, who is about to turn into the primary Indian sprinter to compete on the World Championships.
Also, triple jumper Praveen Chitravel, 3000m steeplechase runner Parul Chaudhary and Abdulla Aboobacker are among the many different key names within the squad. Gulveer Singh and Pooja will probably be doubling up in two occasions every as effectively.
Heading into the meet, Indian athletes have gained three World Championship medals: Anju Bobby George’s lengthy leap bronze at Paris 2003, Neeraj Chopra’s javelin silver at Oregon 2022 and his monumental gold at Budapest 2023. Over 2,000 athletes throughout 200 nations are aiming for a medal on the championships, with an enormous 147 medals on the road in 49 completely different occasions. (ANI)