NEW DELHI: India's elite long jumper, Murali Sreeshankar, is a stickler for perfection. He is striving to be the best version of him, looking to iron out the proverbial chinks in his armour. For a long jumper, the correct technique requires years of practice. The approach towards the board, the initial run-up, or the final take-off, an elite jumper is always trying to extract the minutest possibility of getting even a centimetre's advantage. Sreeshankar is no different.
The Birmingham Commonwealth Games silver medallist is working with Kieth Herston, the jumps coach at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, US. In Birmingham, Sreeshankar managed to jump 8. 08m. In recent times, the 24-year-old from Palakkad, has surpassed the 8m mark consistently. Topmost among which was a terrific 8. 41m effort at the National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar.
