The President said her World Athletics bronze medal will encourage more athletes to dream of similar feats.
The Indian ace cleared 6.61 metres and placed behind the Russian trio of Irina Simagina, Tatyana Lebedeva and Tatyana Kotova in that order.
Nigerian Sports Minister Musa Mohammed is backing his country to win 10 Olympic gold medals at the Athens Games in August.
The ace long jumper will begin preparations with a three-month training stint in Bangalore from December 1.
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Anju George, Bobby Aloysius and K M Binu are not among those who have entered the September 10-12 meet in Mumbai.
Women's 100 metres world champion and Diamond Race leader Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The sport's top female athlete soared an impressive 7.11 metres, the second best leap in the world this year.
Brief profile of five male athletes to watch out for at the August 22-30 world championships in Beijing.
The 19-year-old Indian cleared 66.84 metres in the javelin throw to make the grade in the IAAF World Junior Championships.
The delay in procuring a visa for different countries maty force India's long jump ace to miss a couple of Grand Prix meets.
V K Vismaya stunned her fancied opponents, M R Poovamma and Hima Das, to win the gold medal in the women's 400m race at the Indian Grand Prix-3, in Sangrur, on Saturday.
She covered 6.40 metres in the long jump event at the World Indoor athletics.
Husband and coach Bobby George said Anju can smash the seven metre barrier as early as next month in the Afro-Asian Games.
The 21-year-old Punjab Police Assistant Sub-Inspector broke T C Yohannan's long junp mark at the Federation Cup Athletics championships.
Regarded as the Oscar of sports, the nominations for 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards were finalised following a ballot by the world's sports media.
The Ethiopian broke the 5,000 metres indoor world record at a Grand Prix meeting held at Birmingham.
Quarter-miler Machettira Raju Poovamma and heptathlete Liksy Joseph won a silver each as India added four medals on the second day of the 21st Asian Athletics Championships in Wuhan, China, on Thursday.
Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra's obsessive pursuit of excellence and a new-found sprint sensation in Hima Das gave Indian athletics audacious Olympic hopes but familiar dope shame kept things in perspective in an eventful 2018.
Neeraj's gold and three other athletics silver medals, along with Saina Nehwal's badminton singles bronze, propelled India's overall medal count to 41 (8 gold, 13 silver, and 20 bronze).
With that in mind, India's World Athletics championships bronze medallist said victory is a sure possibility.
Hima Das shattered the 400m national record for a second time in two days for a silver while Dutee Chand grabbed the second place in 100m dash on another good day for India's track and field athletes at the Asian Games.
The 19-year-old Indian junior world record holder did not attempt his fifth and final throws due to the injury and his first round effort of 83.80m fetched him a seventh place finish in a strong eight-man field in Zurich on Thursday.
Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana ran the second fastest women's 5,000 metres in history as she missed out on the world record by just over a second at the Rome Diamond League in Rome, on Thursday.
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Michael Phelps of the United States won the Olympic 200 metres individual medley on Thursday to capture the 22nd gold medal of his career and become the first swimmer to win the same event at four consecutive Games.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Images from Thursday's proceedings at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha.
Russia has named a track and field team for the Rio Olympics which includes gold medallists Yelena Isinbayeva and Ivan Ukhov among 68 athletes who are hoping an IAAF ban on them competing will be lifted by sport's highest court later this month.
China has lost an opportunity to witness something inspirational by denying visa to the 101-year old sprinter Man Kaur, who wanted to compete at the Asian Masters Athletics Championships, says her son Gurdev Singh.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
The United States is expected to run away with the athletics competition in Rio, taking podium spots often the preserve of Russians such as double pole vault gold medalist Yelena Isinbayeva and 110m hurdles world champion Sergei Shubenkov.
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Heptathlete Swapna Barman added a dash of heroism to her historic gold medal
India's report card on the seventh day of the 2016 Olympics.
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