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Indian long jumper (born 1999)
Murali Sreeshankar is an Indian long jumper. He has won silver medals at the 2022 and 2026 Asian Games, 2023 Asian Championships, and the 2022 and 2026 Commonwealth Games.
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Asian multi-sport event
The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games, they have been organized by the Olympic Council of Asia, after the breakup of the Asian Games Federation. The Games are recognized by the International Olympic Committee and are the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games.
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Parul is a five-petaled flower known for its beauty. It is also a unisex name of Hindu origin. The name also appears in the Bengali folk tale Saat Bhai Champa, which is also known as "Seven Champa Brothers and One Sister Parul". In the tale, a king has seven sons and one daughter. Towards the end of the story the children turn into flowers. The daughter was the flower "Parul". The story and the flower Parul also feature in Rabindranath Tagore's Rabindra sangeet.
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Asian Games Athletics: Murali Sreeshankar bags a silver medal in the men's long jump event while Parul Chaudhary secures a bronze in the women's 5000M race, adding to India's growing medal tally at the continental sports meet.
The image of Indian long jump ace Murali Sreeshankar twisting his ankle on his fourth jump on a rain-swept Monday night at the Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium will be a tough one to forget.
India collected eight medals on a rain-hit Day 10 in Nagoya, with athletics contributing six and Esha Singh adding shooting silver. The day also brought Vithya Ramraj's national record, a washed-out cricket quarter-final and boxing progress into the semifinals.