Indian athlete and former Asian champion Abdulla Aboobacker won the men’s triple jump title at the Qosanov Memorial 2025 athletics meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan last night, edging past his closest competitors by just one centimetre. The 29-year-old Keralite secured victory with a best jump of 16.08 metres, narrowly ahead of the Republic of Korea’s Yu Gyumin and Kim Jang-woo.
The South Korean duo recorded identical best jumps of 16.07 metres. However, Yu Gyumin was awarded second place based on countback, thanks to a superior second-best jump of 15.90m compared to Kim Jang-woo’s 15.87m. Aboobacker, who equalled his personal best of 17.19m earlier this year in Bengaluru, remains in contention to qualify for the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, scheduled to take place from September 13 to 21. While the automatic qualifying mark is 17.22m, the Indian jumper is currently in line to qualify via the world rankings quota. The qualification window closes on August 27.
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