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Indian long jumper M Sreeshankar qualified for the Commonwealth Games final with an opening leap of 8.01m, surpassing the qualifying mark

Hyderabad’s veteran athlete M Ananth won silver in the long jump at the Asian Masters Athletics Championships in Chennai with a leap of 5.71m. Japan’s Yoshio Mochizuki and Shinichi Yamada claimed gold and bronze. Ananth trains under Prof Rajesh Kumar

Aldrin had jumped 8.42m, the best in the world so far this season, during the National Open Jumps Competition at Bellary on March 2 and then had two 8m-plus efforts in Havana, Cuba

Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar recorded his best jump at Chula Vista at 8.29m on Sunday to win the gold

Jeswin Aldrin broke the national record with a jump of 8.42 metres to claim gold

The 17-year-old Indian leaped to a distance 6.40m in the U-20 Worlds