NEW DELHI: Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar secured the gold medal at the Masters Volleyball Academy (MVA) High Performance 1 athletics meet held in Chula Vista, USA.

Sreeshankar recorded his best jump at Chula Vista at 8.29m on Sunday to win the gold. The 24-year-old’s jump was over the World Athletics Championships 2023 qualifying standard for men’s long jump set at 8.25m.Unfortunately, the effort didn’t make him qualify for the Worlds in Budapest because the tailwinds recorded at +3.1m/s during his jump.Notably, jumps with over +2.0m/s wind assistance are not logged as official records or qualifying timings in long jump.

Sreeshankar, who has been training in Texas Tech University, Lubbock, started his 2023 season at the Indian Grand Prix 3 in Bengaluru last month, where he won the gold medal with a 7.94m effort.The meet in the US was his second competition of the year and the first piece of competitive action on foreign soil for 2023.g jumper Murali Sreeshankar wins gold.

Sreeshankar held the men’s long jump national record in India with his 8.36 jump but it was surpassed by Jeswin Aldrin with an effort of 8.42m at the second Indian Open Jumps Championships in March.

The qualifying standard of World Athletics Championships 2023, which is scheduled in Budapest this August, is 8.25m and Sreeshankar’s effort was over it but was not considered as tailwinds were over permissible limits.

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