With gold medal already in the bag, the Swedish star took three attempts at breaking his own world record, saving his best for the last, after just touching the bar on his previous two attempts at the height.
The 26-year-old's best effort of 7.78m, with other legal attempts of 7.70 m and 7.59 m earned him a 14th place in Group A of athletes and overall 25th amongst 36 players. His returns were not sufficient enough to help him meet the qualification criteria of 8.15 m jump or finish in top 12 nee
India's long jump athlete Murali Sreeshankar extended his win streak to five events in this season after tasting success at the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships 2025, but failed to breach the qualification mark for the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Tokyo next m
At the Indian Open 2025 World Athletics Bronze Level Continental Tour in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, on Sunday, Olympian Annu Rani outperformed her opponents to take home the women's javelin throw championship.
The 26-year-old Indian athlete made a winning leap of 7.94m on his opening attempt to secure the top spot at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze label (category C) meet, according to Olympics.com
India's Murali Sreeshankar made a triumphant return to international competition by winning the men's long jump at the Meeting Maia Cidade do Desporto 2025 in Maia, Portugal, on Saturday.
India's world champion and Olympic gold medalist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra had an outing to remember, as he became the first Indian to cross the 90 m mark in the sport on Friday. However, after a monstrous throw by Germany's Julian Weber at the Doha Diamond League, he could not secure
India's top long jump athlete and Commonwealth Games medalist, Murali Sreeshankar, expressed his feelings about missing out on the Paris Olympics 2024.
The 25-year-old Sreeshankar, placed seventh in the world rankings, injured his left knee while training at Palakkad, his hometown, earlier this month. He ruled himself out of the marquee multi-sport event as he opted for surgery following a series of consultations and tests, as per Olympics.
The 24-year-old, who won the silver medal in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 and the Asian Games in Hangzhou held last year, also has competed in the Diamond League competition, one of the top-most events in athletics.
Neeraj Chopra, Avinash Sable, Annu Rani, Murali Sreeshankar and Jeswin Aldrin are also part of the registered testing pool for the first quarter of 2024