Watch: Murali Sreeshankar Seals Silver in Asian Athletics Championships, Secures Spot For Paris Olympics

An effort of 8.37m (-1.1) has ensured a silver medal for the 24-year-old athlete.

Updated on: 15 July 2023 12:25 pm

8.27m is the qualification benchmark for the upcoming Summer Olympics in the men’s long jump event.

Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar has qualified for Paris 2024 Summer Olympics en route to his silver medal triumph at Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok.

An effort of 8.37m (-1.1) has ensured a silver medal for the 24-year-old athlete.

Murali Sreeshankar wins 🥈 in the mens long jump at the Asian Athletics Championships with a giant 8.37m jump. He had 5 jumps over 8m in the competition. The CWG 🥈 also qualifies for the 2024 Olympics with this jump pic.twitter.com/u2EYj67FBo
— jonathan selvaraj (@jon_selvaraj) July 15, 2023

Yu Tang Lin of Chinese Taipei notched up 8.40m (+0.3) to pocket the gold medal while his Chinese counterpart Mingkun Zhang sealed the third place with an 8.08m leap.

Murali breached the 8+m on five instances in the competition, becoming the first Indian field athlete to qualify for the big-ticket event in 2024.

Murali Sreeshankar becomes the first Indian Athlete (in addition to the Race Walkers) to qualify for #Paris2024 . He bags a silver medal at #AsianAthleticsChampionships with a best jump of 8.37m. Well done Sree #IndianAthletics pic.twitter.com/8tT6tVpPhQ
— Rahul Bhutani (@BhutaniRahul) July 15, 2023

8.27m is the qualification benchmark for the upcoming Summer Olympics in the men’s long jump event.

The career-best leap of 8.41m propelled the long-jumper to a Budapest World Championships spot in August. The record came during the qualification stage of the National Inter-State Championships in Bhuvaneshwar.