Tokyo Olympian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar won the gold medal with a jump of 7.95m at the Venezuela-Chania 2022 Athletics Meet in Chania, Greece. France’s Jules Pomery (7.73m) and Ervan Conte (7.71m) won silver and bronze medals respectively in this event on Sunday. Name of Sreeshankar 8. The national record is 36 metres.
Sreeshankar, who set a national record with a jump of 8.36m last month, had earlier won the gold medal in the 12th International Jumping Meet in Greece with a jump of 8.31m. The Kerala athlete had jumped 8.14 and 8.17 meters in the first India Open Jumps Meet of the season. He qualified for the World Athletics Championship 2022 by breaking his own national record at the Federation Cup in Kozhikode.
Mana Patel bags ‘Best Indian Time’ – Indian swimmer Mana Patel took the ‘Best Indian Time’ in the women’s 100m backstroke event at the Canet stage of Mare Nostrum Swimming in France. The 22-year-old Olympian swimmer from Gujarat clocked 1:03.69sec to clock her personal best on the last day of the competition on Sunday night.
Earlier also this record was in the name of Mana – even before this the record was in the name of this swimmer who participated in Tokyo Olympics last year. He had clocked 1:03.87 in Belgrade last year. Mana qualified for the final of the ‘B’ event by finishing 15th.
The record for the National Swimming Championships is considered a national record – she clocked 1:03.87 in the final. The National Swimming Championship’s record in swimming is considered a national record, while the record time for any other competition is referred to as the ‘best Indian time’.