| Jabir with his 2017 Asian Athletics Championships bronze medal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jabir Madari Palliyalil [1] [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 June 1996 Manjeri, Kerala, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. [3]
Jabir won the bronze medal at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in 400 metres hurdles with a timing of 50.22 seconds. [4] At the same event in 2019 Asian Athletics Championships in Doha, he set his personal best timing of 49.13 to win bronze [5] and achieved the qualification standard for 2019 World Athletics Championships. [6]
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. [7]
Jabir works for the Indian Navy and is posted at Kochi, as of 2017. [8]