Seema Punia breached the age to qualify for her fourth Olympics. And she did it in some model by breaking the meet file in ladies’s discus throw on the fifth and remaining day of the sixtieth National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships at Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports (NSNIS), Patiala on Tuesday.
He participated within the 2004 Athens Games, 2012 London and 2016 Rio Games.
Seema, 38, will be a part of Kamalpreet Kaur, who had earlier booked her Olympic berth.
Seema began with 59.31m and elevated it to 60.35 and 63.18 in her second and third makes an attempt. She achieved the qualifying mark (63.50m) in her fourth try, which was measured at 63.70m. Delhi’s Sonal Goyal and Rajasthan’s Madhu Renu completed second and third, failing to cross the 50m mark.
extra excellent news
However, there was some excellent news as athletics’ world governing physique World Athletics (WA) confirmed that the Indian quartet’s timing of three minutes 01.89 seconds on Friday will probably be thought of thirteenth.
On the primary day of the nationwide meet, on Friday, Mohammad Anas, Amoz Jacob, Arokia Rajeev and Noah Nirmal Tom within the males’s 4x400m crew set a brand new meet file of three:01.89s within the heats, propelling the Indians to thirteenth place. .
In the ultimate, 400m hurdler MP Jabir changed Amoz, who was rested after complaining of some ache on Monday night.
Nevertheless, the crew set a brand new meet file of three minutes 05.22 seconds. The outdated meet file of three:09.29 was set by Kerala within the 2006 Chennai version.
Women’s relay groups virtually out
As anticipated, each the ladies’s 4x100m and 4x400m didn’t make the Olympic qualifying mark.
In the quick relay, the crew was lacking the injured Hima Das. Dutee Chand anchored the crew by which Daneshwari AK, Archana Susindran, Dhanalakshmi S set a brand new meet file of 44.15 seconds.
The Indian crew must await the World Athletics Road to Tokyo rating listing in 4x400m, which will probably be out quickly. Olympic qualification additionally closed on Tuesday.
Rohit makes minor troubles minor
In the lads’s javelin throw, Shivpal Singh of UP’s Tokyo completed second behind his state mate Rohit Yadav who received the gold with an effort of 77.74m. Shivpal, who competed with Neeraj Chopra in Tokyo, threw the javelin to 77.31m, whereas Sri Lankan Sumedha Ranasinghe accomplished the rostrum with 77.28m.
end result:
MEN Javelin throw: Rohit Yadav (Uttar Pradesh, 77.74m), Shivpal Singh (UP, 77.31m), Sumedha Ranasinghe (Sri Lanka, 77.28m); 4x400m: India 3:05.22s NMR, OMR 3:09.29s by Kerala in 2006 (Jabir MP, Arokia Rajiv, Md Anas Yahiya, Noah Nirmal Tom), Punjab (3:09.84), Haryana (3:13.02s); 3000m steeplechase: Shankar Lal Swami (Haryana, 8:46.36s), Vikram Singh (MP, 9:15.53s), Md Nur Hasan (UP, 9:17.96s); 200m: Love Preet Singh (Pun, 21.04s), Kaliga Kumarage (Lanka, 21.13s), Nithin B (TN, 21.20s)
Women’s 4x100m relay: India 44.15 NMR, OMR 45.69 by Tamil Nadu crew in 2019 (Daneswari AK, Archana Susindran, Dhanalakshmi S and Dutee Chand), Sri Lanka 44.55 BMR, (WVL Sugandhi, Amasha de Silva, Shalinda Jansen, BIM Jaya), Telangana (45.91s); 4x400m: India E 3: 38.46 (Subha Venkatesan, Jisna Mathew, Kiran Pahal, R Veeramani), India Mix-B 3: 47.16 (Vismaya VK, Shalini VK, Dandi Jyothika of Sri Lanka, A Shaba Salim of Maldives), Punjab ( 3:54.77); 1500m: Harmilan Bains (Punjab 4:15.52), Chanda (Dale, 4:18.96), Chitra Pu (Kerala, 4:20.29); 3000m steeplechase: Parul Choudhary (UP, 10:01.58), Komal Chandrakant Jagdale (Maharashtra, 10:10.31), Neelani Rathnayake (Sri Lanka, 10:12.02); Discus Throw: Seema Punia (UP, 63.70m NMR, OMR 62.49m set by Neelam J Singh in 2000 Chennai), Sonal Goel (Dale, 49.50m), Madhu Renu (Raj, 47.55m); 200m: Anjali PD (Kerala, 24.01), BIM Jaymane (Lanka, 24.08), Harika Devi Antaram (Telangana, 24.64).
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
