Kushare eyes Asiad high!
Updated On: 22 August, 2023 07:37 AM IST | Budapest | Sundeep Misra
India’s high jumper Sarvesh overawed by World Championship experience in Budapest; assures better show at Hangzhou Asian Games next month
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India’s Sarvesh Anil Kushare competes in the men’s high jump qualification in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday. Pic/Getty Images
Sarvesh Anil Kushare has the look of a man who is afraid of his own shadow. Being inside the cauldron-like National Athletic Centre (NAC) here in Budapest, the imposing bull-ring type of atmosphere, the constant buzz, chatter, starter guns, groans of the fans, applause, being surrounded by stars like Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim, Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi, even South Korea’s rising star Sang-hyeok Woo, everything can be quite unsettling.
Woo was also at the Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok recently, where he won the gold, jumping 2.28m. Kushare bagged the silver, clearing 2.26, the first high-jump medal for India at the Asian Athletics after Jithin Thomas’s silver in 2013. Kushare speaks softly. Each word, like every step he takes, after rocking himself into a take-point for his jump. His eyes don’t dart around. He fixes you in a stare where earnestness in what he says comes through like an athlete cutting through a middle-distance field to eventually go ahead of the pack.
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