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Murali Sreeshankar wins second Commonwealth Games long jump silver
Murali Sreeshankar became India’s first Commonwealth Games double medallist in long jump after winning silver with an 8.09-metre effort on Wednesday. The 27-year-old had also taken silver in Birmingham in 2022. Jamaica’s…
The Story in Brief
Murali Sreeshankar became India’s first Commonwealth Games double medallist in long jump after winning silver with an 8.09-metre effort on Wednesday. The 27-year-old had also taken silver in Birmingham in 2022. Jamaica’s former world champion Tajay Gayle won gold with 8.15 metres, while local athlete Stephen Mackenzie took bronze at 8.08 metres.
Sreeshankar’s medal capped a comeback from a ruptured patellar tendon suffered in April 2024. Surgery forced him to miss the Paris Olympics and cast doubt on his career. He opened the final with 8.03 metres and moved into the lead with his second jump. India’s earlier long jump medallists were Suresh Babu, Anju Bobby George and M Prajusha.
The Indian Opinion
The easy story is that Sreeshankar simply returned to his best, but the result was tighter than that: Gayle won by 6cm and Mackenzie finished just 1cm behind. Nor should one medal erase the cost of his injury or the Olympic opportunity he missed. The useful measure now is consistency across the next competitions, not a larger comeback narrative built around one 8.09-metre jump.
Source: thehansindia.com
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