Commonwealth Games Day 5: Murali Sreeshankar, Sajan Prakash, Tejas Shirse qualify for final

India has begun Day 5 at the Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, Scotland on an encouraging note, with Murali Sreeshankar booking his berth for the final of the men’s long jump event with 8.01m in his first jump. He needed to breach the eight-metre mark during the qualifying round.

If the jumper from Kerala had failed to cross the qualification mark, he would have needed to finish in the top 12 after the completion of two groups in the qualification round to make it through to the final.

The 27-year-old long jumper won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, behind LaQuan Nairn from the Bahamas.

India’s Lokesh Sathyanathan also qualified for the long jump final, with a jump of 7.77m. He qualified with the seventh best distance.

Sajan Prakash qualified for the Men’s 200m Butterfly Final. He finished sixth overall in the heats with a timing of 1:58.59s and second in his heat.

Tejas Shirse qualified for the final of the 110m hurdles with a timing of 13.76s in the first heat.

Gurindervir Singh out of contention in men’s 100m

In disappointing news, India’s fastest man Gurindervir Singh has not qualified for the next round in the men’s 100m. India’s national record holder clocked 10.39 seconds to be placed 18^th. He needed to finish in the top 17 to qualify for the next round.

Ghana’s Abdul Saminu stormed through Heat 2 in a season-best 10.01 seconds, the fastest 100m heat time in Commonwealth Games history.

India has four boxing bouts lined up on Monday, with Sachin Siwach, Ankush, Sakshi Choudhary and Sumit Kundu all competing in the Round of 16. Siwach begins the boxing action against England’s William Hewitt at 4:45 pm IST, with the remaining three bouts spread across the evening and night.

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India will hope to increase their medal tally from weightlifting, with Gyaneshwari Yadav, Bindyarani Devi, and V Ajaya Babu all featuring in finals. After Mirabai Chanu’s gold on Sunday, the three weightlifters have the opportunity to significantly boost India’s tally on Day 5.

List of medal events for India on Day 5

Athletics: Tejas Shirse in men’s 110m hurdles final

Swimming: Sajan Prakash in men’s 200m butterfly final

Swimming: Aryan Nehra in men’s 800m freestyle fastest heat/final

Weightlifting: Bindyarani Devi in ​​women’s 58 kg final

Weightlifting: Gyaneshwari Yadav in women’s 53 kg final

Artistic Gymnastics: Protistha Samanta in women’s vault final

Para Athletics: Rakeshbhai Bhatt and Shreyansh Trivedi in men’s 100m T38 final

Weightlifting:V Ajaya Babu in men’s 79 kg final

Athletics: Tejaswin Shankar, J Aadarsh ​​Ram, and Sarvesh Anil Kushare in men’s high jump final

Para Athletics: Shilpa K Shyla and Sharmila Dhankar in women’s shot put F57 final

India’s medal tally

India has bagged four medals at the Games till Day 4 on Sunday, including one gold by weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, two weightlifting silvers by Rishikanta Singh Chananbam and Raja Muthupandi, and a bronze medal by Jhandu Kumar in para powerlifting.