M Sreeshankar

Pole vaulters Dev Meena and Kuldeep Kumar etched their names in history, jointly setting a new national record of 5.45m at the National Senior Athletics Federation Competition. Both athletes achieved the Commonwealth Games qualifying mark. Elsewhere, Murali Sreeshankar and Sarvesh Anil Kushare also secured gold and CWG berths in their respective events.

Indian Athletics Series 6 saw Tejas Shirse win the 110m hurdles in 13.43s after a four-month injury layoff, narrowly missing a national record. High jumper Aadarsh Ram achieved a personal best of 2.27m, becoming the third-best in the country. Murali Sreeshankar secured the men's long jump with 8.04m, while Nidhi Rani's 58.82m in discus breached Asian and CWG qualifying marks.

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m sreeshankar finished sixth during the recently-concluded Asian Games in Jakarta and few expected the long jumper to script a recordshattering feat at the 58th National Open Athletics Championships on Thursday.

India began its World Athletics Championships campaign on a disappointing note with long jumper m sreeshankar failing to reach the final after finishing 22nd in the qualification round with a below par effort in Doha on Friday.

Half-an-hour before the long jump event at National Open Athletics Championship in Bhubaneswar on Thursday, Sreeshankar M was unsure of his participation.

The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Monday said it has sacked long jumper m sreeshankar's coach, his father S Murali, owing to the youngster's disappointing Tokyo Olympics performance.

Sprinter Dutee Chand and long jumper m sreeshankar figured among the athletes named on Wednesday to take part in the international competitions to be held in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan next month.

The Malayalam athlete, who holds the national record of 8.2 metre in long jump set in 2018, had been working out at his home during the lockdown

Bannihatti (Karnataka), March 2 (PTI) Tamil Nadu's Jeswin Aldrin hogged the limelight with a national record in men's long jump in the second AFI National Jumps Competition near here on Thursday. The 21-year-old leapt 8.42 metres to erase the the previous mark of 8.36 metres set by India teammate m sreeshankar at the Federation Cup in Kozhikode in April last year.

After overcoming uncertainties regarding his entry for the championship, m sreeshankar came up with his season's best of 8.37m. It was an effort that was close to the Asian gold but then it was m ore than the Paris Olympics qualification mark of 8.27m.

Race walker Bhawana Jat underwent a fitness test on Friday while other two Olympic-bound athletes KT Irfan and m sreeshankar will have to prove their fitness in the coming days to confirm their participation in the Tokyo Games.

Mudalur, a village in the Thoothukudi district in Tamil Nadu, has been renowned for its sweet dish muscoth halwa. Now, Mudalur has something else to be proud of, courtesy Jeswin Aldrin, the grandson of Joseph Abraham, who made muscoth halwa popular in 1960s.

IOA and the AFI might be trying to get his late entry in the Commonwealth Games but long jumper m sreeshankar's chances of taking part in the multi-sporting event got over after he was diagnosed with appendicitis.

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The cabinet has decided to confer a reward of Rs 20 lakh on Eldhose Paul, who bagged the gold medal in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games at Birmingham in England.

National record holder long jumper m sreeshankar's return to action after a horror show at the Tokyo Olympics will be keenly watched when he lines up for the inaugural National Open Jumps competition on Tuesday.

Tokyo Olympian Murali Sreeshankar clinched his second gold medal of the season with a jump of 7.95m at the Venizeleio-Chania 2022 athletics meet in Chania, Greece.

m sreeshankar, national junior record holder in the men's long jump event, has been named in the 13-member Indian team for the 8th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships to be held in Tehran, Iran from February 1 to 3.

National record holder long jumper m sreeshankar marked his return to competition with his third best ever effort of 8.17m to record a dramatic victory in the inaugural National Open Jumps Competition on Tuesday.

Assam sprinter Amlan Borgohain of Assam, long jumper m sreeshankar and 100m hurdler Jyothi Yarraji of Andhra Pradesh won gold in their respective events in the AFI Indian Grand Prix 3 Athletics competition in Bengaluru on Monday.

Sreeshankar was forced to pull out of the prestigious Diamond League event, starting June 30 in Sweden, as his passport was held up at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi for visa processing for next month's World Championship at Oregon.

m sreeshankar not only overcame his mental block but went on to claim gold by leaping to a record distance in the under-18 boys long jump event of the 60th Kerala State Junior Athletics Championship at Maharaja’s College Ground here on Saturday.

India will field shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor, long jumper m sreeshankar and sprinter Dutee Chand in the World Athletics Indoor Championships to be held in Belgrade, Serbia from March 18 to 20.

The 18th Asian Junior Athletics Championships at Gifu will be the Palakkad boy's first competition since missing SAF junior meet at Colombo in May and the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in April due to surgery on his appendicitis and post-surgery complication.

Long jumper m sreeshankar is on a high. The ongoing 61st inter-state National athletics meet here saw the 23-year-old break the meet record on two successive days. Sreeshankar topped the qualification rounds with a jump of 8.01m, rewriting the meet record set by Prem Kumar (8.00m) back in 2013.

Asian champion PU Chitra ran her season's best to win the women's 1500m gold at the Folksam Grand Prix in Sollentuna, Sweden.

After he bettered his own long jump national record to earn an Olympic berth on Tuesday, Sreeshankar Murali is chuffed but grounded. He knows there is still plenty of work to be done before boarding the flight to Tokyo. On the way back to his hometown Palakkad from Patiala after registering a new national record mark of 8.26 metres, the 21-year-old athlete opened up about his journey.

Star sprinter Dutee Chand, javelin thrower Annu Rani and 400m hurdler MP Jabir qualified for the Tokyo Olympics through world rankings as 15 Indian athletes and two relay teams were confirmed for the Games by the sport's world governing body on Thursday.