birmingham national record holder murali sreeshankar topped the mens long jump qualification round to storm into the finals along with muhammed anees yahiya who qualified as eighth best at the commonwealth games here on tuesdaythe 23yearold sreeshankar a gold medal contender was the lone athlete to breach the automatic qualification mark of 8m with an opening round effort of 805m in group ahe did not make any more attempts his jump was however wind assisted with a tail wind speed of 27mssreeshankar who finished seventh in the recent world championships in eugene usa has a seasons and personal best of 836myahiya on the other hand finished third in group b qualification round with a best jump of 768m he has a seasons and personal best of 815mthose who touched the automatic qualification mark of 8m or 12 best performers make it to the finals to be held on august 4