Paris 2024 Olympics: What is Abdulla Aboobacker's personal best in triple jump?
Abdulla Aboobacker will be one of the two athletes representing India in the men's triple jump event at the Paris Olympics 2024. The first round will get underway on Wednesday, August 7, and the final round will be held on Friday, August 9. The host country's largest stadium, Stade de France, will be staging all the rounds of the triple jump.
Aboobacker achieved his personal best record at the 2022 Indian Grand Prix in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, where he secured a gold medal finish with a jump of 17.19m.
In the same year, he had a bronze medal finish at the Indian Open Jumps Competitions in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and a silver at the National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
However, Abdulla Aboobacker hogged the limelight by winning silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. He finished with a jump of 17.02m behind Eldhose Paul's gold medal-winning jump of 17.03m.
2023 also proved to be a terrific year for Aboobacker, as he secured various podium finishes, including golds at the Oda Mikio Memorial (Municipal Stadium in Hiroshima), Federation Cup in Ranchi, and the Asian Athletics Championships (Supachalasai National Stadium in Bangkok).
His last appearance of the same year saw him finish fourth in the Asian Games competition. Aboobacker jumped 16.62m and fell short of his compatriot Praveen Chithravel's jump of 16.68m, who finished with the bronze.
Abdulla Aboobacker's performances in 2024
Ahead of the Paris Olympics, the 28-year-old participated in four events this year.
In March, Abdulla Aboobacker finished with a gold medal in the Indian Open Jumps competition in Bengaluru with a jump of 16.76m. Soon after this, the Wanda Diamond League in Xiamen saw him finish eighth with an effort of 16.33m.
He had another under-par performance at the Federation Cup in Bhubaneswar with a jump of 16.23m. However, Aboobacker's last appearance at the National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships saw him secure gold with a jump of 17m.
It will be interesting to see whether Aboobacker can secure a podium finish for the country at the ongoing Summer Games.