Chennai, May 10 -- Asian Games silver medalist in men's long jump, Murali Sreeshankar on Sunday stamped his authority during the sixth-leg of the Indian Athletics Series being played here at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
The 27 year old international athlete from Kerala recorded a jump of 8.04m to win the men's long jump title.
Of the six legal attempts, the star long jumper had three legal jumps. His second jump measured 7.90m while his fourth attempt was 8.04m long. He dug deep in his last and final attempt to further improve his performance but settled for 7.97m.
Earlier in April Sreeshankar hadrecorded a jump of 8.15m , a season best during a domestic meet in Bengaluru. Recently during the South Africa exposure tour, he recorded a ju...