Bhubaneswar, Jun 17 (PTI) Having trained in different weather conditions for quite some time now, ace long jumper Murali Sreeshankar feels that he can counter the high degree of humidity while aiming for a gold medal jump at the National Athletics Championship, here on Sunday.

Sreeshankar, the latest Indian athlete to win a Diamond League medal in Paris last week, began his season at the Indian Grand Prix in Bengaluru in April.

After that, he was in the USA to compete at the MVA High Performance Meet in Chula Vista where he jumped a wind-assisted 8.29m.

He then won gold at the International Jumping Meeting in Greece with 8.18m before finishing third in the Paris leg of the prestigious Diamond League Meeting series with a jump of 8.09m.

He became only the third Indian after Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and former discus thrower Vikas Gowda to achieve the feat.

“The temperature in Greece was up and down, sometimes reaching near 40 degree celsius. Of course, humidity is high here. I have trained and competed under low and high temperatures,” Sreeshankar told

Source: PTI News