NEW DELHI: Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar secured third place within the Paris Diamond League with a jump of 8.09m. This is his maiden top-three end within the prestigious one-day assembly sequence.
Sreeshankar additionally turned the one third Indian to complete in top-three of a Diamond League after Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and former discus thrower Vikas Gowda.
Commonwealth Games silver medallist Sreeshankar achieved his finest bounce of the day in his third try on Friday night time.
His 8.09m effort was beneath his season’s better of 8.18m, which he recorded whereas successful gold in an occasion in Greece final month. The 24-year-old has a private better of 8.36m that got here final 12 months.
The rivals within the males’s lengthy bounce occasion confronted head wind more often than not.
Olympic champion and world primary Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece took the highest spot together with his fifth spherical bounce of 8.13m, simply 4cm higher than Sreeshankar.
Switzerland’s World Championships bronze medallist Simon Ehammer completed second together with his fourth spherical bounce of 8.11m.
Sreeshankar’s sequence on the Charlety Stadium right here was 7.79m, 7.94m, foul, 7.99m and foul.
He was main after the third spherical earlier than Ehammer and Tentoglou went forward.
The Indian nevertheless completed forward of Cuba’s Olympic bronze medallist Maykel Masso (sixth place with 7.83m) and Sweden’s World No. 4 Thobias Montler (seventh with 7.82m) to affix the unique three-member DL membership.
Olympic champion Chopra is the reigning Diamond League champion in javelin throw after successful the Finals in Zurich final September.
He has additionally completed on prime in Lausanne and second in Stockholm final 12 months earlier than successful the season-opening leg in Doha final month.
Gowda had completed second twice — in New York in 2012 and in Doha in 2014 — and third on two events — Shanghai and Eugene in 2015.
Medals will not be awarded to particular person Diamond League Meetings.
This was Sreeshankar’s second foray within the Diamond League Meeting sequence.
He had completed sixth the Monaco leg final 12 months.
Sreeshankar grabbed six qualification factors for the Diamond League Finals of the season to be held in Eugene, USA, in September.
He can even get worthwhile rating factors in his bid to qualify for the World Championships to be held in Budapest, Hungary, in August.
Sreeshankar, who has been coaching in Greece for the final one month, is but to realize the World Championships computerized entry normal of 8.25m and the deadline is July 30.
He had recorded an 8.29m bounce within the USA in April however that got here with a +3.1m/s wind help which is above the permissible restrict of +2m/s.
However, he can nonetheless qualify via the world rating route as he’s on twentieth spot within the Road to Budapest rankings, which would be the foundation to choose 36 rivals for the showpiece.

Compatriot Jeswin Aldrin, who’s at present second within the season’s prime checklist ready by World Athletics, has already certified for the World Championships together with his 8.42m nationwide record-breaking effort on the Indian Open Jumps Competition at Bellary, Karnataka, in March.
Sreeshankar is about to compete within the National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar from June 15-19.
(With inputs from PTI)