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Murali Sreeshankar wins gold in long jump at Meeting Maia Cidade do Desporto 2025

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Maia [Portugal], July 20 (ANI): India's Murali Sreeshankar made a triumphant return to international competition by winning the men's long jump at the Meeting Maia Cidade do Desporto 2025 in Maia, Portugal, on Saturday.

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Competing abroad for the first time since 2023, the 26-year-old Indian athlete registered a best effort of 7.75m on his second attempt to top the field, as per Olympics.com.

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The Meeting Maia Cidade do Desporto is a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze-level meet (category C) in Portugal.

Poland's Piotr Tarkowski also logged 7.75m on his fifth attempt, but Sreeshankar claimed the top spot thanks to a superior second-best mark - 7.69m from his third jump - compared to Tarkowski's 7.58m.

As per World Athletics rules, if two or more athletes achieve the same best mark in the long jump competition, the jumper with the better second-best performance is ranked higher.

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Australia's Chris Mitrevski rounded out the top three with a best jump of 7.68m on his last attempt.

The Portugal meet was Sreeshankar's second competition since returning from a serious knee injury sustained in April 2024, which required surgery and forced him to miss the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Earlier this month, Sreeshankar made a winning comeback on home soil with an 8.05m jump at the Indian Open Athletics Meet 2025 in Pune.

Murali had secured a quota for the Paris Olympics by leaping 8.37m - breaching the Olympic entry standard of 8.27m - to win silver at the Asian Athletics Championships 2023 in Bangkok.

His last major international appearance before injury was a silver-medal finish at the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. (ANI)

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Asian Athletics Championships 2023Chris MitrevskiMeeting Maia Cidade do Desporto 2025murali sreeshankarPiotr TarkowskiWorld Athletics Continental Tour
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