Jeswin Aldrin breaks meet-record to win long jump event at 2023 Bern athletics
The Indian athlete logged 8.22m in Switzerland to top the eight-man field that included an Olympian and two world championships medal winners.
Athletics
India’s Jeswin Aldrin logged an effort of 8.22m to win the men’s long jump event at the CITIUS Meeting athletics 2023 in Bern, Switzerland on Friday.
Jeswin’s Aldrin, who holds India’s men’s long jump national record of 8.42m, logged his best effort in the first attempt at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze level athletics event.
The 21-year-old Jeswin Aldrin’s mark of 8.22m was also the new meet record. The athlete from Tamil Nadu jumped 8.17m and 8.14m with second and fourth jumps, respectively. The Indian athlete committed a foul during his second attempt and forfeited his final two jumps.
Alejandro Parada of Cuba finished second with a best effort of 8.08m, while Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer, a bronze medal winner at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, finished third with a jump of 8.03m.
The field featured other prominent names like Lester Lescay, who represented Cuba at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and South African Ruswahl Samaai, a two-time Commonwealth Games medallist.
It was the first time Jeswin Aldrin crossed the 8m mark since May spanning four events. He set the national record in Bellary in March.
Jeswin Aldrin was competing in his first event since the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in June.
Jeswin Aldrin had pulled out of the Lausanne Diamond League and the Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok in July owing to injury.