India’s best: Sreeshankar broke his own National record earlier this year with a leap of 8.36m, an effort that places him second in the world’s top list this season. The distance would have also won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics last year.Promising performance: Muhammed Anees finished fifth at the Commonwealth Games, showing that he could hold his own when pitted against top jumpers at a major event.
Around this time last year, M. Sreeshankar and his dad S. Murali were down, dejected and very lonely. Suffering from muscle imbalance issues, long jumper Sreeshankar had failed to qualify for the final at the Tokyo Olympics. His nightmare began there.
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