Indian lengthy jumper Shaili Singh received silver within the ladies’s lengthy leap with a private better of 6.59m on the World U20 championships on the ultimate day of the World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday.
She missed out on the gold medal by a centimetre to Sweden’s Maja Askag, the junior European champion.
Shaili had earlier raised the hopes of a medal for India when she topped the ladies’s lengthy leap qualification on the third day of the U20 Championships on Friday.
Shaili not solely topped the qualification however crossed the automated qualification mark of 6.35m in her closing and third try which measured 6.40m. She had opened with a distance of 6.34m and her second 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 World Championships, a yr earlier than Shaili was born.
Before travelling for the National Inter-State Athletics Championship in Patiala in June, Shaili had not competed in almost two years due to Covid-19 restrictions.
On her return, she had damaged the National Youth file earlier than setting a brand new nationwide U20 mark, a brand new private better of 6.48 metres.
Long jumper Shaili Singh … on the ultimate day of the World Athletics U20 Championships at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday.
Shaili had earlier raised the hopes of a medal for India when she topped the ladies’s lengthy leap qualification on the third day of the U20 Championships on Friday.
Shaili not solely topped the qualification however crossed the automated qualification mark of 6.35m in her closing and third try which measured 6.40m. She had opened with a distance of 6.34m and her second 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 World Championships, a yr earlier than Shaili was born.
Before travelling for the National Inter-State Athletics Championship in Patiala in June, Shaili had not competed in almost two years due to Covid-19 restrictions.
On her return, she had damaged the National Youth file earlier than setting a brand new nationwide U20 mark, a brand new private better of 6.48 metres.
