Sarvesh Kushare

Naib Subedar

Sarvesh Kushare

Kushare at the 2025 World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Sarvesh Anil Kushare
Nationality	Indian
Born	17 June 1995 (1995-06-17) (age 30) Nashik district, Maharashtra, India
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Military career
Branch	Indian Army
Years of service	2016–present
Rank	Naib Subedar
Unit	101 Field Regiment
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2.28 m (Tokyo, 2025)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing   India Asian Championships 2023 Bangkok High jump South Asian Games 2019 Kathmandu High jump

Sarvesh Kushare (born 17 June 1995) is an Indian high jumper. ^[1] In 2025, he became the first ever Indian high jumper to qualify for the finals of the World Championships, where he finished sixth. He has also competed in the men's high jump at the 2022 Asian Games, where he narrowly missed a medal with a fourth-place finish. ^[2] Kushare has represented India in the men's high jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics. ^[3]

Early life

Sarvesh hails from a village Deogaon in Maharashtra, about 50 km from Nashik. ^[4] He learnt his basics from D.R.Bhosale school coach RW Jadhav.

Career

• 2023: In August, he took part in the World Athletics championships in Budapest, representing India. ^[5] He finished 11th in the qualification round of Group B and 20th overall among 33 jumpers. He cleared 2.26m in his second attempt but failed to clear the next height at 2.29m in all the three attempts. ^[6] The top-12 made it to the finals. ^{[7] [8] [9]}
• 2023: In July, he won a silver jumping 2.26m at the Asian Athletics Championships, Supachalasai National Stadium, Bangkok. The medal helped him improve his ranking, which in turn helped him book a berth for the World Championship. ^{[4] [10]}
• 2023: In February, he did his personal best in indoor championships of 2.20m at Nur-Sultan, Kazakasthan.
• 2022: In October, he achieved his personal outdoor best of 2.27m in the Indian National championship at Gujarat. ^[11]
• 2019: In October, he won gold medal jumping 226m at the Indian Open Championships in Ranchi.
• 2019: He made his international debut at the South Asian Championships.
• 2018: On 26 September, he created a national record in high jump at the 58th National Open athletics championship at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar. ^[11] He beat the meet record of 2.22m held by Tejaswin Shankar. ^[12] However, he did not succeed in his attempt to jump 2.29m to break the National record. ^[12]

References

1. "Sarvesh Anil Kushare - Player Profile - Athletics". Eurosport. Archived from the original on 7 August 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
2. "2022 Asian Games: Men's High Jump". World Atheltics.
3. "India athletics wrap, 7 August: Annu Rani, Sarvesh fail, Yarraji in repechage". India Today. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
4. Lahiri, Dipankar (16 July 2023). "Sarvesh Kushare - India's highest jumper who trained on cattle feed pits". thebridge.in. Archived from the original on 26 September 2023. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
5. "Athletics World C'ships 2023: Sarvesh Kushare, Santhosh Tamilarasan exit early on Day 2". Scroll.in. 21 August 2023. Archived from the original on 11 March 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
6. "Asian Games 2023 Highlights Day 11: Neeraj Chopra wins gold, India's medal count climb to 81". Hindustan Times. 4 October 2023. Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
7. Selvaraj, Jonathan (20 August 2023). "World Athletics Championships: Reality checks for India's Sarvesh Kushare, Tamilarasan Santosh". Sportstar. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
8. "World Athletics Championships: Santhosh Kumar and Sarvesh Anil Kushare crash out in 400m hurdles and high jump". India Today. Archived from the original on 23 August 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
9. "Kushare eyes Asiad high!". Mid-day. 22 August 2023. Archived from the original on 25 August 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
10. शेळके, नरेश (24 July 2023). "Asian Athletics Championships 2023 : मराठमोळ्या सर्वेशचे जागतिक स्पर्धेचे तिकीट पक्के! आशियाई स्पर्धेत जिंकले होते रौप्यपदक". Marathi News (in Marathi). Archived from the original on 24 July 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
11. Selvaraj, Jonathan (3 October 2022). "Sarvesh Kushare snapping at Tejaswin Shankar's heels for high jump national record". Sportstar. Archived from the original on 1 December 2023. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
12. "Sarvesh Anil Kushare eclipses Tejaswin Shankar's long jump record on day two". The Times of India. 27 September 2018. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 12 February 2024.

External links

• Sarvesh Kushare at World Athletics
• Sarvesh Kushare at Olympics.com
• Sarvesh Kushare at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics