Sreeshankar breaches Olympic qualification mark, units new nationwide report

Sreeshankar broke his personal lengthy soar nationwide report and certified for the Tokyo Olympics with a 8.26-metre leap on the Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships on Tuesday.
The qualifying mark for the Olympics was 8.22m. Sreeshankar’s earlier finest had been 8.20m.

That’s a ticket for #Tokyo2020 for Murli Sreeshankar in that pic.
Sree jumped 8.26m in his fifth try & improved his personal National Record! Prev. report 8.20m
Well completed champ!@SonySportsIndia pic.twitter.com/WSgBuWp6hs
— Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) March 16, 2021
He started with a 8.02m soar earlier than enhancing to eight.04m, 8.07m and eight.09m in his subsequent three jumps earlier than touching 8.26m in his fifth try. He had a no mark (NM) in his closing soar.
Another Kerala jumper Muhammed Anees Yahiya (8m) and S Lokesh (7.60m) of Karnataka took the silver and bronze respectively.
Five race walkers (KT Irfan, Sandeep Kumar and Rahul Rohilla in males’s 20km occasion and Bhawana Jat and Priyanka Goswami in ladies’s 20km occasion), two javelin throwers (Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh), Avinash Sable (males’s 3000m steeplechase) and the combined 4x400m relay crew have earlier certified for the Tokyo Olympics.
National report holder Dutee Chand was crushed to second place by S Dhanalakshmi, whereas Hima Das was disqualified after a false begin in a much-anticipated ladies’s 100m dash closing.
The 22-year-old Dhanalakshmi of Tamil Nadu took the gold by clocking 11.39 seconds forward of Dutee (11.58) of Odisha to develop into the quickest girl of the championships on the second day of competitions on the NIS Campus.
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Another Tamil Nadu runner Archana Suseendran was third in 11.76.
This was after Hima, who was operating within the shorter dash races of 100m and 200m as an alternative of her per occasion 400m, was disqualified after a false begin.
The much-anticipated closing didn’t stay as much as the expectations as Hima was proven the crimson card, whereas Dutee and Dhanalakshmi didn’t come anyplace close to the Olympic qualification mark of 11.15 seconds.
Gurindervir Singh of Punjab received the lads’s 100m closing in 10.32 seconds, whereas Elakkiyadasan Kannada of Tamil Nadu (10.43) and Maharashtra’s Satish Krishnakumar (10.56) have been second and third respectively. National report holder Amiya Kumar Mallick of Odisha completed seventh with a time of 10.75.
Veteran M R Poovamma, representing Karnataka, took the gold in ladies’s 400m, successful the ultimate race in 53.57 seconds. Tamil Nadu’s Subha Venkatesan (54.48) and Kiran Pahal of Haryana took the silver and bronze respectively.
(With PTI inputs)