Sarvesh Kushare

Sarvesh Kushare is an Indian high jumper. 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. Kushare has represented India in the men's high jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Early life

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

2023: In August, he took part in the World Athletics championships in Budapest, representing India. 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. The top-12 made it to the finals.
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.
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.
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. He beat the meet record of 2.22m held by Tejaswin Shankar. However, he did not succeed in his attempt to jump 2.29m to break the National record.