Star Indian lengthy jumper Murali Sreeshankar on Saturday certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics after successful a silver medal within the Asian Athletics Championships with a second career-best effort of 8.37m. The 24-year-old Sreeshankar achieved the Olympic qualification along with his last spherical bounce of 8.37m. The Paris Video games mark is 8.27m and the qualification interval started on July 1. Yu Tang Lin of Chinese language Taipei gained the gold with a fourth spherical bounce of 8.40m, which is the third greatest effort on the earth this season. Sreeshankar has already certified for the Budapest World Championships in August along with his career-best and world second-ranked bounce of 8.41m in the course of the qualification spherical of the Nationwide Inter-State Championships final month.

Earier, Santhosh Kumar gained bronze medal in males’s 400m hurdles with a private greatest time of 49.09 seconds on the fourth and penultimate day of competitions.

Santhosh clocked the quickest time by an Indian in males’s 400m hurdles this 12 months when he completed behind gold medal winner Mohammed Hemeida Bassem (48.64 seconds) of Qatar and Yusaku Kodama (48.96) of Japan.

The 25-year-old’s earlier greatest was 49.49 which he had clocked final 12 months.

One other Indian Yashas Palaksha had additionally certified for the ultimate however he didn’t participate.

No Indian has ever gained a males’s 400m hurdles gold in Asian Championships. Joseph Abraham’s silver in 2009 version was the very best efficiency by an Indian whereas he additionally gained a bronze in 2007. M P Jabir gained a bronze every within the final two editions. PTI PDS PDS BS BS