India’s Murali Sresshankar bagged the silver medal in the men’s long jump event at the Asian Athletics Championships 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday. With this, Sresshankar qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Murali Sreeshankar managed an 8.37m jump – just 0.4m short of his personal best logged in Bhubaneswar last month – with his final attempt of the day but failed to pip Chinese Taipei’s Yu Tang-Lin’s 8.40m attempt, which took the gold.
Though Murali Sreeshankar’s final attempt fell short of the gold medal in Bangkok, it was well above the men’s long jump entry standard of 8.27m for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Indian athletes Anil Sarvesh Kushare and Swapna Barman settled for silver medals in the men’s high jump and women’s-only heptathlon events, respectively, on the fourth day of the Asian Athletics Championships 2023. Tamilarasan Santhosh Kumar logged a new season’s best timing to bag a bronze in the men’s 400m hurdles race.
The Indian mixed 4x400m relay team of Rajesh Ramesh, Aishwarya Kailash Mishra, Amoj Jacob and Subha Venkatesan, meanwhile, combined for India’s only gold medal of the day and set a new national record as well.
With the addition of the five medals – one gold, three silver and one bronze – on Saturday, India’s total medals tally at the Asian Athletics Championships 2023 currently stands at 14 medals – six gold, four silver and four bronze.
