India's Murali Sreeshankar on Wednesday bagged gold with the season's best performance of 8.18m at the International Jumping Meeting at Kallithea, near Greece's capital.

The 24-year-old Sreeshankar defended the gold he had won last year with his sixth and last effort of 8.18m, his sixth career-best performance, at the World Athletics Continental bronze-level competition. He had won the gold last year with a best jump of 8.31m.