Shaili Singh with Italy’s Olympic excessive leap champion Gianmarco Tamberi in Slovakia.
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Shaili with coach Robert Bobby George in Slovakia.
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The setting was inspiring, proper subsequent to 500-year-old Cathedral of St. Elizabeth — one of many oldest Gothic cathedrals in Europe — and it was Shaili Singh’s first road competitors. There was peppy music too on the JBL Jumps Fest, held on Alzbetina Road within the Slovakian metropolis of Kosice on Thursday night time, and athletes got the choice of selecting their very own musical numbers.
Shaili selected a Punjabi track for her jumps and, since Italy’s Olympic excessive leap champion Gianmarco Tamberi had promised the Indians that he can be watching their occasions, she was clearly within the temper.
The 20-year-old Asian silver medallist, presently the nation’s No. 1 lengthy jumper, produced a 6.43m within the fifth spherical, to take the silver behind Bulgaria’s former under-20 World champion Plamena Mitkova (6.70m) within the meet, a World Athletics Continental Tour (bronze) occasion.
In the meantime Commonwealth Video games champion Eldhose Paul took the boys’s triple leap bronze with 16.45m whereas Praveen Chithravel, the Asian Video games bronze medallist and nationwide report holder (17.37m, Could 2023), was sixth and final with 15.92m, his poorest consequence this season.
For the reason that Jumps Fest was a class ‘C’ occasion, the Indians had been hoping to choose essential factors which may assist them safe berths to the Paris Olympics via the World rankings route.
However the athletes had been left shattered on Friday with the World Athletics marking all the outcomes of the JBL Jumps Fest as UNC (uncertified) although it didn’t provide any clarification for this transfer. Which implies that the world-ranking factors picked from Slovakia wouldn’t be added to their Highway to Paris rankings.
“The jumps had been held on a barely elevated runway however this can be a WA Continental Tour occasion so I don’t suppose that could possibly be the explanation for the ‘UNC’… absolutely they might have appeared into it earlier than the meet,” Robert Bobby George, Shaili’s coach, advised The Hindu from Geneva on Friday.
“Shaili will likely be competing in Atleticageneve in Geneva on Saturday however now will probably be robust for her to qualify for the Olympics. Tomorrow’s occasion will likely be her seventh competitors in a bit over a month, in about seven international locations. She is younger, I don’t wish to push her onerous, it may result in accidents. I’ve advised her to simply benefit from the competitors…this European tour will likely be an excellent expertise for her.”
Adille Sumariwalla, the president of the Athletics Federation of India and likewise World Athletics vice-president, has now written to world physique concerning the ‘UNC’ problem.
“I’m making some enquiries, have written to WA…I’m not in India,” Sumariwalla advised The Hindu.
Revealed – June 21, 2024 08:51 pm IST
