Jeswin Aldrin came up with a massive world-leading 8.42m long jump that broke M. Sreeshankar’s one-year-old national record in the second Indian Open Jumps Championships at the JSW’s Inspire Institute of Sports, Bellary, on Thursday.
The 21-year-old Indoor Asian silver medallist from Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, who showed glimpses of his talent when he beat Sreeshankar to the gold with a wind-assisted 8.37m (he also had a legal-wind 8.26m in that event) at last year’s Federation Cup in Malappuram, had an impressive series.
He opened with 8.05, equalled his personal best with his next (8.26) and then broke the national record with his third jump. And perhaps realising that nobody would come anywhere close to it, he closed his series. It was also the second time Jeswin was achieving the qualification standard for this year’s World Championships in Budapest.
“The national record has been a while coming and I am happy it has come at a venue where I have been training. It is the result of the hard work turned in here over the last few years,” said Jeswin.
“I now want to produce this kind of performance at the global level.”
Muhammed Anees, the silver medallist, was way behind at 7.85m.
Meanwhile Praveen Chithravel, also from Tamil Nadu, won the triple jump gold with a meet record 17.17m that was just a centimetre behind his personal best which came last year in Chennai.
And Kerala’s Gayathri Sivakumar broke the women’s triple jump meet record with a personal best 12.98m while taking the gold, her first title at the national level.
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