2 min learnApr 5, 2026 12:46 AM IST
Competing for the primary time within the season, Murali Sreeshankar leapt a creditable 8.15m to win the lads’s lengthy bounce occasion on the opening Indian Athletics Sequence right here on Saturday.
Sreeshankar, representing NCOE Trivandrum, acquired his successful bounce in his fourth try, his finest efficiency since making a comeback after a knee surgical procedure in 2024. His better of final season was 8.13m.
The 27-year-old had missed the 2024 Paris Olympics on account of a surgical procedure on his injured knee. He additionally took half within the Tokyo World Championships in September final yr however didn’t qualify for the ultimate spherical.
On the Kanteerava Stadium leaping pit, Sreeshankar was the one athlete within the discipline to breach the 8m mark. Sunny Kumar of Bihar completed second with 7.90m, whereas Purushotham of Karnataka was third with 7.87m.
The ladies’s lengthy occasion noticed powerful competitors with Ancy Sojan, representing Reliance, successful the title with 6.54m effort whereas Shaili Singh of Anju Bobby George Sports activities Basis completed second with 6.52m. Moumita Mondal, additionally of Reliance, secured the third place with 6.37m.
Tamil Nadu pole vaulter Reagan Ganesh continued his spectacular kind within the season with a private finest effort of 5.35m to win the occasion. He had cleared 5.30m on the inaugural Nationwide Indoor Championships in Bhubaneswar final month.
In Bhubaneswar, he had really tried to higher Dev Meena’s nationwide report of 5.40m however couldn’t succeed.
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In the meantime, Tamil Arasu, representing Railways, clinched the 100m title with a strong run of 10.23 seconds. Tamil Nadu’s Giridharani Ravi Kumar, in the meantime, received the ladies’s 100m race with a time of 11.53 seconds.
Maharashtra’s Sarvesh Kushare, who had grow to be the primary Indian excessive jumper to achieve the finals of the World Championships final yr, took the title by clearing 2.23m.
Aadarsh Ram of Tamil Nadu was second with an identical 2.23m whereas Jesse Sandesh of Karnataka took the third sport with 2.10m.
Within the males’s 200m race, the highest three finishers went sub-21 seconds with Jishnu Prasad of BSF successful in 20.76 seconds.
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NCOE Trivandrum’s Vishal TK, the 400m nationwide report holder, was second with a time of 20.80 seconds whereas Railways’ Tamil Arasu was third after clocking 20.83 seconds.