Jabir with his 2017 Asian Athletics Championships bronze medal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Jabir Madari Palliyalil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1996-06-08) 8 June 1996 (age 28) Manjeri, Kerala, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 400 metres hurdles, 400 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 400 metres hurdles: 49.13 (Doha 2019) 400 metres: 46.96 (Mladá Boleslav 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 27 September 2019 |
Jabir Madari Palliyalil (born 8 June 1996), better known as M. P. Jabir, is an Indian athlete who specializes in 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres.
Jabir won the bronze medal at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in 400 metres hurdles with a timing of 50.22 seconds. At the same event in 2019 Asian Athletics Championships in Doha, he set his personal best timing of 49.13 to win bronze and achieved the qualification standard for 2019 World Athletics Championships.
Jabir became the first Indian male athlete to qualify for the 400m hurdles in Olympics, after earning qualification for the event in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Jabir works for the Indian Navy and is posted at Kochi, as of 2017.
References
- "Jabir MADARI PALLIYALIL". World Athletics. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
- "Jabir MADARI PALLIYALIL". IAAF. Archived from the original on 17 January 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- "MP Jabir qualifies for Tokyo Olympics in 400m hurdles". Sportstar. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- Rayan, Stan (8 July 2017). "Asian athletics: Sudha brightens the day". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- "Gomathi runs the race of her life, gives India its first gold at the championships". The Hindu. 22 April 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- Rayan, Stan (25 April 2019). "Gomathi's surprise…and the ones that got away at the Asian Athletics Championships". Sportstar. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- "Tokyo 2020: Indian Navy's MP Jabir qualifes [sic] for Olympics in 400m hurdles". India Today. 1 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- Srinivasan, Aneesh (16 July 2017). "Anu Raghavan and MP Jabir overcome hurdles to clinch titles". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
External links
- Jabir Madari Palliyalil at World Athletics
- Jabir Madari Palliyalil at Olympics.com
- Jabir Madari Palliyalil at Olympedia
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Indian male hurdlers
- Indian male sprinters
- Athletes from Kerala
- Indian Navy personnel
- World Athletics Championships athletes for India
- Olympic athletes for India
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- South Asian Games gold medalists for India
- South Asian Games silver medalists for India
- South Asian Games gold medalists in athletics
- South Asian Games medalists in athletics
- Medalists at the 2019 South Asian Games