U20 International C’ships: Shaili Singh wins silver in ladies’s lengthy bounce with private perfect rating of 6.59m
Indian lengthy jumper Shaili Singh received silver within the ladies’s lengthy bounce with a private perfect of 6.59m on the International U20 championships at the ultimate day of the International Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday.
She overlooked out at the gold medal via a centimetre to Sweden’s Maja Askag, the junior Eu champion.
Shaili had previous raised the hopes of a medal for India when she crowned the ladies’s lengthy bounce qualification at the 3rd day of the U20 Championships on Friday.
Shaili now not most effective crowned the qualification however crossed the automated qualification mark of 6.35m in her ultimate and 3rd try which measured 6.40m. She had opened with a distance of 6.34m and her 2d measured 5.98m.
{The teenager} from Jhansi moved to Bangalore three-and-a-half years in the past to coach with Robert Bobby George. Robert coached his spouse Anju when she received a bronze medal on the 2003 International Championships, a 12 months sooner than Shaili used to be born.
Prior to travelling for the Nationwide Inter-State Athletics Championship in Patiala in June, Shaili had now not competed in just about two years as a result of Covid-19 restrictions.
On her go back, she had damaged the Nationwide Formative years document sooner than environment a brand new nationwide U20 mark, a brand new private perfect of 6.48 metres.
Lengthy jumper Shaili Singh … at the ultimate day of the International Athletics U20 Championships at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday.
Shaili had previous raised the hopes of a medal for India when she crowned the ladies’s lengthy bounce qualification at the 3rd day of the U20 Championships on Friday.
Shaili now not most effective crowned the qualification however crossed the automated qualification mark of 6.35m in her ultimate and 3rd try which measured 6.40m. She had opened with a distance of 6.34m and her 2d measured 5.98m.
{The teenager} from Jhansi moved to Bangalore three-and-a-half years in the past to coach with Robert Bobby George. Robert coached his spouse Anju when she received a bronze medal on the 2003 International Championships, a 12 months sooner than Shaili used to be born.
Prior to travelling for the Nationwide Inter-State Athletics Championship in Patiala in June, Shaili had now not competed in just about two years as a result of Covid-19 restrictions.
On her go back, she had damaged the Nationwide Formative years document sooner than environment a brand new nationwide U20 mark, a brand new private perfect of 6.48 metres.
