After the Tokyo Olympics, the main target is now on the World Athletics Under-20 Championships ranging from Wednesday to Sunday on the Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya.
The match was scheduled between 17-22 August and can now begin a day afterward 18 August. It will finish on twenty second August. It was earlier scheduled to be held from July 7-12, 2020, however was postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. .
Nairobi received the internet hosting rights in 2018 after internet hosting ‘an impressive closing version’ of the IAAF World U18 Championships in 2017. As per studies, no less than 60,000 watched the U18 Championship on the Moi International Sports Center in Nairobi. But this time the followers won’t be able to look at the motion as a result of Covid-19 restrictions.
Indian athletes comprising 17 boys and 10 women arrived in Nairobi on Sunday morning. N Rose Tommy, who certified for the ladies’s 100m hurdles, missed the flight on Friday night after the Kerala athlete examined constructive for COVID-19.
Nairobi is thought for its chilly local weather, with temperatures as little as 15 levels Celsius and highs as excessive as 22 levels Celsius, so the expectations for doing properly are excessive.
Investing in relay groups
Kamal Ali Khan, the top coach of the Indian crew, is worked up after a two-week camp at NSNIS, Patiala. “As always our hopes are on throw events – javelin throw and shot put. In women’s long jump we look forward to podium finishes apart from relay teams, in particular, the 4x400m mixed team,” Kamal mentioned on his departure. informed the Indian Express on the eve of
Interestingly, regardless of competing within the males’s 4x400m, no boys have been listed within the particular person race. In combined relay too, Indians are lacking from the provisional record.
“During the nationwide camp, we’re specializing in relay groups. The combined crew has the lead whereas the boys’ and women’ relay groups may also do properly.
The coach additionally mentioned that Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal (males’s shot put), Amit (males’s 10,000m), Priya Mohan (girls’s 400m) and Ankita Dhyani (girls’s 5,000m) are anticipated to do properly.
Kamal mentioned, “It is the turn of this group to step up.”
Priya, Shelly, Rana anticipated to show heads
National champion Priya Mohan, who received the 400m gold medal through the National Senior Inter-State Athletics Championships held in Patiala in July, is predicted to repeat 53.29 seconds.
Only six – Veronica Arkhipova (Authorized Neutral Athlete Ok 52.70), Jamaica’s Annalee Robinson (53.26), Vanika McEnough (52.54), Dejania Oakley (52.51), Imobong Nse (51.70 Nigeria), Cornelia Lesiewicz (52.02 sec, Poland) – forward of Indians.
In girls’s lengthy leap, Shaili Singh, who set a private better of 6.48m through the National Senior Inter-State Athletics Meet in Patiala, can be a medal contender. According to the entry record, solely Ariana Battistella (6.55m, Italy), Anna Matuszewicz (6.49m, Poland) and Maria Horilova (6.49m, Ukraine) are above the Jhansi-born jumper.
In males’s javelin throw, Kunwar Ajay Raj Singh Rana, who has a season-best 74.75m, is predicted to comply with in Neeraj Chopra’s footsteps. The Tokyo Olympic champion received the gold medal on the 2012 World Meet on the Stadion Zawiza in Bydgoszcz in Poland with a javelin throw of 86.48 metres. Rana, a resident of Kiratpur Sahib in Rupnagar district of Punjab, is at the moment at world quantity 3.
The different medalists are Hima Das (gold in girls’s 400m, 51.46) at Ratina Stadium, Tampere, Finland in 2018, Seema Antil (bronze in girls’s discus throw) and Navjit Kaur Dhillon (bronze in girls’s discus throw) on the 2002 Kingston version. . 2014 Eugene, USA.
India’s program
Day 1 August 18, Wednesday (from 11.30 am IST): 4x400m combined relay heats, Vipin Kumar (Men’s hammer throw, qualifying, seasonal finest: 68.94m), Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal (Men’s shot put, qualification, SB: 19.15m), Priya Mohan and Sumi (Women’s 400m warmth) , sb: 53.29s) and 53.57s); Afternoon session from 7 PM IST Jai Kumar and Kunwar Ajay Raj Singh Rana (Men’s Javelin Throw Qualification, SB: 72.29m and 74.75), Mixed Relay Final.
Day 2 August 19 Thursday (from 11.55 am Indian time): Rohan Gautam and Hardeep Kumar (Men’s 400m Hurdles, Heat, SB: 52.49), Anu Kumar (Men’s 800m Heat, SB: 1:49.25); Afternoon session from 5.10 PM IST Shot Put Final.
Day 3 August 20, Friday (from 11.30 am IST): Nandini Agasara (Women’s 100mH Heat 13.70s), Tejas Shirse (Men’s 110mH Heat, SB: 13.74s), Pooja (Women’s 1500m Heat, SB: 4:19.58s), Shaily Singh (Women’s Long Jump Qualification SB: 6.48m), Shanmuga Srinivasa Nalubothu (Men’s 200m heats, SB: 2 21.02 sec); Afternoon Session (from 5.10 pm): Men’s Javelin Throw Final, Sunil Jolia (Men’s Steeplechase Heat SB: 8:55.48), Women’s 100 MH Semi-Final, Men’s 110 MH Semi-Final, Men’s 400m Semi-Final, Men’s HT Finals, Women’s 800m SF, Women’s Long Jump Final, Men’s 200m SF and Men’s 3000m SC Finals;
Day 4 Aug 21 Saturday (from morning session 11.30am IST): Amit (Men’s 10000m Race Walk, SB: 40: 40.97), Baljit Kaur (Women’s 10000m Race Walk, SB: 49: 50.71), Women’s 4x400m Relay (Priya, Payal Vohra, Dipanshi, Sumi and Kunja Rajita SV: 3:26.89), Men’s 4x400m Relay (Nagarjuna Selvaraj, Kapil, Abdul Razak, Barath Sridhar, Sumit Chahal, SB: 3:00.25sec), Afternoon session (from 5.30pm): Men’s 400mH SF, Men’s 800m SF, Women’s 100mH, Men’s 110mH, Women’s 800m, Women’s and Men’s 400m, Men’s 200m Finals;
Day 5 Aug 22 Sunday (All Finals from 5 PM onwards): Donal Makimiraj (Men’s Triple Jump, SB: 15.76m), Men’s 400m, Men’s 800m, Women’s 1500m, Ankita (Women’s 5000m, SB: 16: 21.19 sec).
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
