Tokyo [Japan], September 16 (ANI): India’s Asian Championships silver medalist Sarvesh Kushare achieved a sixth-place end within the ultimate of the lads’s excessive leap occasion on the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kushare etched his title in historical past on the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Tokyo after turning into the primary Indian excessive jumper to qualify for the ultimate on the earth meet on Sunday. Kushare earned a spot within the 13-player ultimate by crusing over the two.25m mark to complete within the prime 12 of the lads’s excessive leap qualification spherical.
Now in the course of the finals, he produced a finest try of two.28 m, his private finest, producing it in his third try.
The podium was accomplished by Hamish Kerr of New Zealand (2.36m), adopted by South Korea’s Sanghyeok Woo (2.34) and the Czech Republic’s Jan Stefela (2.31 m).
On Monday, Asian Games silver medalist Murali Sreeshankar bowed out of the lads’s lengthy leap occasion within the qualification spherical itself in the course of the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
The 26-year-old’s finest effort of seven.78m, with different authorized makes an attempt of seven.70 m and seven.59 m, earned him a 14th place in Group A of athletes and total twenty fifth amongst 36 gamers. His returns weren’t enough to assist him meet the qualification standards of 8.15 m leap or end within the prime 12 wanted to succeed in the medal spherical, as per Olympics.com.
Sreeshankar had made a return from a protracted damage layoff after a knee damage that dominated him out of the Paris 2024 Olympics. He entered the World Championships with 5 wins in 5 occasions and a season-best of 8.13 m on the Indian Open in Bhubaneswar final month. His private finest is 8.41 m, simply wanting Jeswin Aldrin’s nationwide document of 8.42 m.
At the 2022 World Championships in Oregon, Sreeshankar made it to the ultimate and secured a seventh-place end with a leap of seven.96m.
It was a poor day at work for India’s girls’s 3000 m steeplechasers, with Parul Chaudhary, the nationwide document holder with 9:12.46s, clocking 9:22.24s to complete ninth in her warmth and gaining a Twentieth-place end total. Parul had made it to the ultimate two years again within the Budapest version of the championships.
Ankita Dhyani was eleventh in her warmth with a time of 10:03.22s and thirty fifth total, securing the final spot within the subject. They each wanted a top-five of their respective heats to succeed in the medal spherical, however fell manner quick.
Tejas Shirse, in males’s 110 m hurdles, clocked 13.57 seconds and completed sixth in his warmth. He is the nationwide document holder with 13.41 seconds. Tejas completed in twenty ninth spot in a subject of 42 athletes, lacking out on the semifinals.
India has secured solely three medals within the World Athletics Championships of their historical past up to now. Anju Bobby George received lengthy leap bronze at Paris 2003, whereas Neeraj Chopra claimed javelin silver at Oregon 2022 and clinched a historic, first-time ever gold at Budapest in 2023 to solidify his legacy as considered one of India’s best athletes ever.
India’s Tokyo 2025 contingent consists of 19 members, together with 14 males and 5 girls, competing throughout 15 occasions. (ANI)