Tokyo [Japan], September 15 (ANI): Asian Games silver medalist Murali Sreeshankar bowed out of the boys’s lengthy soar occasion within the qualification spherical itself throughout the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Monday.
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 general twenty fifth amongst 36 gamers. His returns weren’t enough to assist him meet the qualification standards of 8.15 m soar 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 in need of Jeswin Aldrin’s nationwide file 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 file holder with 9:12.46s, clocking 9:22.24s to complete ninth in her warmth and gaining a Twentieth-place end general. 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 general, 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 means quick.
Tejas Shirse, in males’s 110 m hurdles, clocked 13.57 seconds and completed sixth in his warmth. He is the nationwide file 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 thus far. Anju Bobby George received lengthy soar 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 one among India’s best athletes ever.
India’s Tokyo 2025 contingent contains 19 members, together with 14 males and 5 girls, competing throughout 15 occasions. (ANI)