: Athletics: What Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic success should teach India’s current generation of U20 stars #IndiaNEWS As India’s Shaili Singh leapt to the long jump silver at the U20 World Athletics

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Athletics: What Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic success should teach India’s current generation of U20 stars #IndiaNEWS
As India’s Shaili Singh leapt to the long jump silver at the U20 World Athletics Championships, one of the first thoughts to come to mind was ‘what next for her?’. The prime reason for that thought process was the distance that Shaili Singh had leapt. It was a wind-assisted effort but still 6.59m is the kind of distance that should allow her – within a few years – to challenge the best in the world. Watch #ShailiSingh s magical jump that landed her the #U20WorldChampionships silver again. 📷 World Athletics. music: Thunderstruck- AC/DC pic.twitter.com/005hCHNE5V— Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) August 23, 2021 The youngster from Jhansi is just 17 and given that she is rising under the mentorship of coaches Robert Bobby George and Anju Bobby George, she will have the advantage of getting just the right kind of guidance. But still, one wonders, what next?Germany’s Malaika Mihambo won the Tokyo Olympics women’s long jump gold with a leap of 7.00m. But even before that Shaili Singh’s first target would be to go past Anju Bobby George’s Indian national record of 6.83m. It requires her to step up quite a bit from where she is currently and it was in this context that one kept going back to Neeraj Chopra’s...Read more

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