: World Athletics Championships: M Sreeshankar finishes seventh in men’s long jump final #IndiaNEWS India’s M Sreeshankar finished seventh in the men’s long jump final at the World Athletics Championships

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World Athletics Championships: M Sreeshankar finishes seventh in men’s long jump final #IndiaNEWS
India’s M Sreeshankar finished seventh in the men’s long jump final at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday. The Kerala jumper, the first ever Indian to qualify for the men’s long jump final in this event’s history, started solidly but could not better his first attempt of 7.96m.World Athletics Championships men’s long jump final as it happened: M Sreeshankar finishes seventhAnju Bobby George, the only Indian to win a medal at the Worlds so far, had finished 3rd and 4th in 2003 and 2005. Sreeshankar’s 7th is now the joint third-best finish in any event at the Worlds by an Indian athlete.The event was thrillingly won by China’s Jianan Wang who pulled off a massive 8.36m jump on his last attempt to snatch the gold medal from Tokyo Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou. Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer took home bronze.Sreeshankar took the lead after the first series of jumps with his 7.96m effort. However, he fouled out in his second attempt as Tentoglou, Ehammer, Maykel Masso, Steffin McCarter and Marquis Dendy jumped over 8m with their second attempts.Sreeshankar looked like he too breached the 8m mark with his third attempt only to foul by the slimmest of margins. The 23-year-old was in danger of missing out from the...Read more

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