Sreeshankar leaps into history with second straight CWG long jump medal
GLASGOW: (Jul 29) Murali Sreeshankar added another chapter to Indian athletics history on Wednesday, becoming the country’s first long jump double medallist in Commonwealth Games with a silver here.
Having claimed silver in Birmingham in 2022, the 27-year-old added another medal to his collection after producing a best leap of 8.09 metres, capping an emotional comeback from the career-threatening knee injury that had nearly derailed his career.
Before Sreeshankar, the country’s only medallists in the event were: Suresh Babu (men’s bronze, 1978), Anju Bobby George (women’s bronze, 2002) and M Prajusha (women’s silver, 2010).
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