Yokohama: India’s Shaili Singh won bronze medal in the women’s long jump event at the Golden Grand Prix 2023 athletics meet in Yokohama, Japan. She finished third at the event with a jump of 6.65 meter.
Last night, Shaili Singh attempted a, which provided her third place on the podium at the Yokohama meet, a World Athletics Continental Tour gold label event.
Germany’s Maryse Luzolo won the gold medal with a jump of 6.79 meter. Two-time Commonwealth Games silver medallist, Brooke Buschkuehl of Australia bagged the silver medal with a 6.77 meter leap.
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During the Indian Grand Prix 4 athletics meet in Bengaluru which concluded last month, Shaili Singh registered a jump of 6.76 meter. This is her personal best jump and the second-best by an Indian woman after the legendary athlete Anju Bobby George (6.83 meter).
Shaili Singh had won a silver medal win at the World Athletics UNDER-20 Championships in Nairobi in 2021.
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