🇮🇳 Long Jumper Murali Sreeshankar qualifies for Tokyo Olympics

:india: Long jumper Sreeshankar has qualified for Tokyo Olympics with a national record jump of 8.26m at the Federation Cup. He surpassed his own record of 8.20m and the Olympic qualifying mark of 8.22m.

A basketball junkie, Sreeshankar swears by the late NBA legend Kobe Bryant’s mantra of relentlessness, obsession and single-minded passion for the sport.

Sreeshankar is coached by his father S Murali, a former triple jumper and silver medallist at the South Asian Games and mother KS Bijimol who is a former 800m athlete.

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INDIAN MEN’S LONG JUMP RECORD [ 8.20 ] in 2018

Sreeshankar breaks 8m barrier in Long jump with a massive jump of 8.20M and created a new Indian Men’s Long Jump national record in the 2018 Open Nationals in Bhubaneswar.

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