Abdulla Aboobacker

After an injury-hit 2025, abdulla aboobacker has returned strongly, winning gold with 16.83m and qualifying for the Asian Games. Now focused on crossing 17.20m+, he aims to turn past near-misses into podium finishes in 2026.

Indian triple jumper abdulla aboobacker voices concern over athlete burnout, attributing it to aggressive training methods in private academies, particularly in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. He highlights that while junior athletes show early promise, overtraining leads to injuries and performance plateaus, hindering their senior-level transition.

abdulla aboobacker shot into prominence with a silver medal, in what was a memorable 1-2 finish for India in triple jump, at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last year.

Focused and dedicated: that's the lasting impression men's triple jump silver medal winner abdulla aboobacker N has created in the minds of his coaches and teachers.

abdulla aboobacker was one of the few athletes from Kerala who made it big on the international stage in recent times after making his mark in Kerala State Schools Athletics meets. Even though Aboobacker was able to take his athletic career to the next level, many others, who were equally good or even better than the Kozhikode boy at the school level failed to progress to the next stage in their career.

Eldhose Paul led India's historic 1-2 finish in men's triple jump at the Commonwealth Games as he won a rare gold medal in track and field events and was followed by fellow Kerala athlete abdulla aboobacker here on Sunday.

Krishan Kumar of Haryana and Harmilan Bains of Punjab claimed the men's and women's 800m gold medals respectively with comfortable wins on the third day of the National Inter-State Athletics Championships here on Sunday.

Birmingham Commonwealth Games silver medallist triple jumper abdulla aboobacker won gold in the Mikio Oda Memorial Athletics meet in Hiroshima, Japan, with a season's best effort of 16.31m on Saturday.

Less than 10 days after scorching the track, the future stars of Kerala are back in action as the 57th Kerala State Junior Athletics Championship gets underway at the Maharaja's College Stadium on Friday.

Tamil Nadu's Archana Suseendran defeated Hima Das in the 100m final and made the most of the Assam sprinter's disqualification in the 200m to claim a double gold in the AFI Indian Grand Prix 2 on Monday.

abdulla aboobacker and Karthik Unnikrishnan became only the third and fourth Indian triple jumpers to break the 17m mark after taking the top two places with 17.19m and 17.10m respectively in a dramatic contest in the Indian Grand Prix 3 here on Saturday.

Eldhose Paul became the first Indian to qualify for the triple jump final at the World Championships with an effort of 16.68m here.

For once, the Indian participants in an athletics event weren't hanging on the margins, hoping for someone in the leader pack to suddenly implode. They were the leader pack, and it felt so disbelievingly different as triple jumpers Eldhose Paul and abdulla aboobacker consulted among themselves around the pit, only to be finally separated by a mere 0.01 cm for gold-silver. Praveen Chitravel narrowly missed out on the bronze.

Hurdler Jyothi Yarraji opened India’s gold medal account before Ajay Kumar Saroj (men’s 1500m) and abdulla aboobacker (men’s triple jump) made it a triple delight as they halted Japan’s charge, who still added three more gold, on the second day of the Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok on Thursday.

In the absence of the country’s top athletes, who are currently training abroad, the men’s triple jump and the women’s throws events are expected to be the top draws in the Indian Grand Prix 3 in Bhubaneswar on Saturday.

abdulla aboobacker and Karthik Unnikrishnan became only the third and fourth Indian triple jumpers to break the 17m mark after taking the top two places with 17.19m and 17.10m respectively in a dramatic contest in the Indian Grand Prix 3 on Saturday.

Tamil Nadu’s Praveen Chitravel qualified for next month’s World championships in Oregon, USA with a distance of 17.18m in the men’s triple jump event of the 61st inter-state National athletics championships at the JN Stadium on Tuesday evening.

India's Avinash Sable failed to keep pace with the best in the business as he finished 11th in the Paris Olympics men's 3000m steeplechase final race on Wednesday.

Olympian discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur breached the 60m mark twice to kick off her season with a gold medal at the Indian Grand Prix 2 in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. The 26-year-old took the yellow metal with an effort of 61.39m on her sixth and final attempt.

Avinash Sable set a men's 3000m steeplechase national record to headline a string of good performances in the Indian Grand Prix 2 Athletics competition on Wednesday.

The actress gives her take on India’s incredible performance at CWG’2022.

Indian athletics witnessed a unique first on Saturday. Promising triple jumpers from Kerala, abdulla aboobacker and Karthik Unnikrishnan, breached the coveted 17m mark for the first time in their career to clinch the gold and silver medals, respectively, in the Indian Grand Prix 3, being held at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.

Eldhose Paul won a historic triple jump gold in a 1-2 finish for India as the country bagged four medals on a Super Sunday on the concluding day of athletics competitions at the Commonwealth Games.

It was double delight for India’s Asian Athletics Championships gold medallists Jyothi Yarraji, Ajay Kumar Saroj and abdulla aboobacker as they also booked their berths in the upcoming World Championships as area champions.

Kerala state schools' meet, once a breeding ground for athletes like PT Usha, is witnessing a decline in emerging talents. Athletes like abdulla aboobacker and Ancy Sojan believe the meet's role in producing talent has diminished as sports have become more professional.