Chennai
The next leg of One-Working day Indian Grand Prix scheduled to be held at Chennai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium will be a very good chance for aspiring athletes to make the slice for the Paris Olympic Online games right before the June 30 deadline.
The athletes can gain tickets to the 2024 Olympics either as a result of automated qualification standard or World Athletics position procedure in their respective activities.
Until day far more than 10 Indian athletes, like Olympic and globe champion Neeraj Chopra, have accomplished Paris Olympic Games automatic qualification typical, in their respective occasions.
The second leg of IGP has captivated a amount of promising athletes either aiming for an automatic qualification in their respective occasions, or improving upon private best to make worthwhile details and remain on study course to board flight to compete at the Paris Olympic Online games setting up July 26.
Tamil Nadu’s 26 decades aged Asian medalist, Santosh Kumar T, contemporary from profitable gold in men’s 400m hurdles (50.04 seconds) at the just concluded National Federation Senior Athletics Levels of competition held in Bhubaneswar, will definitely search ahead to breaking the 50 seconds barrier in minimal hurdles on Thursday. “It’s essential to dip below 50 seconds in the 400m hurdles to continue to be in the race to earn a ticket to the Paris Olympic Video games,” Santosh reported right after winning gold in Bhubaneswar.
The men’s 400m hurdles will be the initially keep track of party of the One-Day meet up with in Chennai.
As for each the entries, Santosh has also verified his participation in the 400m flat.
The automated Paris Olympic Game titles qualification time in men’s 400m hurdles is 48.70 seconds. The qualification time in women’s 400m hurdles is 54.85 seconds.
Kerala’s global small hurdler MP Jabir will also be in action in Chennai. He will also contend in the two 400m flat and 400m hurdles, as for every entries.
In the women’s 400m hurdles, second observe occasion of the day, the main target will be on Tamil Nadu’s Asian Online games medalist, Vithya Ramraj.
In the men’s triple jump, Abdulla Aboobacker and Karthik U have verified their entries. The automated qualification mark in men’s triple leap is 17.22m.
In the women’s 400m flat, Kerala’s international quarter miler, Jisna Mathew, will be battling for top rated spot with Maharashtra’s Aishwarya Mishra. The Paris Olympic Video games qualification time in women’s 400m is 50.95 seconds.
Highlight will also be on Maharashtra’s shot putter Abha Khatua, who improved countrywide report to 18.41m during a domestic fulfill earlier in Might in Bhubaneswar. The computerized qualification mark in women’s shot place is 18.80m.