More Sports More Sports Gold for Renjith but a long way to go for Rio Renjith, who won the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games bronze medal with a personal best 17.07m, won the event today with a best of 16.43m. Team Sportstar 07 July, 2016 21:03 IST Renjith Maheswary who won the men’s triple jump gold in the Thailand Open athletics meet. - AP Team Sportstar 07 July, 2016 21:03 IST Renjith Maheswary was far from his season best and the Rio Olympics qualification standard as he won the men’s triple jump gold at the Thailand Open athletics meet in Bangkok on Thursday. Renjith, who won the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games bronze medal with a personal best 17.07m, won the event today with a best of 16.43m. He had jumped to a season best 16.56m while winning the National inter-State gold in Hyderabad on June 29. The silver medal went to a Thailand jumper with 16.03m. The Rio entry standard in the triple jump is 16.85m and July 11 is the deadline to do it. Read more stories on More Sports. For more updates, follow Sportstar on :