Murali Sreeshsankar turns into the primary Indian Male Athlete to win a medal in Long Jump on the Common Wealth Games. Sreeshsankar received the silver medal by making a leap with a distance of 8.08m on the lengthy leap finals.
He began with a profitable leap of seven.60m on his first try, enhancing to 7.84m on his second try and at last taking a leap of 8.08m on his final try.
The 23-year-old dedicated a foul within the second spherical of the ultimate for overstepping the board within the second and the sixth spherical of the finals however managed to cowl it up with an enormous leap of 8.08m within the fifth spherical and touchdown in second place on the tally.
Sreeshankar ultimately misplaced out to Laquan Nairn (8.08m) of Bahamas on the gold medal. Whereas, Jovan van Vuuren (8.06) of South Africa received the bronze medal on the finals.
After successful the historic silver medal, speaking to information company ANI he stated, “Very happy to be honest. I have been waiting for this for a very long time. I desperately wanted a medal here… I knew that a good jump will fetch me a medal here. I wanted to do my Personal Best here but unfortunately, the conditions were not quite favourable. It was windy and cold and the main challenge was to overcome these conditions. After the first round, I got a good rhythm. Happy with the silver medal. Even though a bit disappointed that I could not win the gold,”
He devoted the historic win on the CWG to his father and the Sports Ministry of India.
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