In addition to breaking M. Sreeshankar’s 8.36m record, Jeswin also set a new national record and tied for the 58th-best jump in history.
For example, Jeswin’s 8.42m was one centimetre higher than Militiadis Tentoglou’s 8.40m, which he used to win the gold medal at the Olympics in Tokyo (though Jeswin had a +1.8 tailwind behind him while Tentoglou had a +0.1 in Tokyo).
Jeswin’s jump of 8.42 metres, the fifth-longest in Asian athletic history, was six centimetres shorter than Wang Jianan’s jump of 8.48 metres to win the 2022 World Championships.
Mohamed Salman Al Khuwalidi of Saudi Arabia currently holds the all-time Asian record (8.48 metres), which he set in 2006.
Jeswin’s jump is well above the entry standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics [8.27m], but he has not yet won his quota as the qualification period only started on July 1.
Jeswin has already qualified for the 2023 Asian Games and World Championships.
Jeswin has been trying to break the national record for a while now; at the Federation Cup last year, he had jumped 8.37m, but that record was invalidated because it was a wind-assisted jump (+4.1; anything over +2.0 is regarded as not-legal/irregular jumps).
But on Thursday, his third try, which measured 8.42m, was completely legal.
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