Chennai
The second leg of One-Day Indian Grand Prix scheduled to be held at Chennai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium might be likelihood for aspiring athletes to make the reduce for the Paris Olympic Video games earlier than the June 30 deadline.
The athletes can earn tickets to the 2024 Olympics both by way of automated qualification normal or World Athletics rating system of their respective occasions.
Until date greater than 10 Indian athletes, together with Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra, have achieved Paris Olympic Video games automated qualification normal, of their respective occasions.
The second leg of IGP has attracted numerous promising athletes both aiming for an automated qualification of their respective occasions, or bettering private greatest to earn helpful factors and keep heading in the right direction to board flight to compete on the Paris Olympic Video games beginning July 26.
Tamil Nadu’s 26 years previous Asian medalist, Santosh Kumar T, recent from profitable gold in males’s 400m hurdles (50.04 seconds) on the simply concluded Nationwide Federation Senior Athletics Competitors held in Bhubaneswar, will definitely sit up for breaking the 50 seconds barrier in low hurdles on Thursday. “It’s essential to dip under 50 seconds within the 400m hurdles to remain within the race to earn a ticket to the Paris Olympic Video games,” Santosh mentioned after profitable gold in Bhubaneswar.
The lads’s 400m hurdles would be the first monitor occasion of the One-Day meet in Chennai.
As per the entries, Santosh has additionally confirmed his participation within the 400m flat.
The automated Paris Olympic Video games qualification time in males’s 400m hurdles is 48.70 seconds. The qualification time in girls’s 400m hurdles is 54.85 seconds.
Kerala’s worldwide low hurdler MP Jabir may even be in motion in Chennai. He may even compete in each 400m flat and 400m hurdles, as per entries.
Within the girls’s 400m hurdles, second monitor occasion of the day, the principle focus might be on Tamil Nadu’s Asian Video games medalist, Vithya Ramraj.
Within the males’s triple leap, Abdulla Aboobacker and Karthik U have confirmed their entries. The automated qualification mark in males’s triple leap is 17.22m.
Within the girls’s 400m flat, Kerala’s worldwide quarter miler, Jisna Mathew, might be battling for prime spot with Maharashtra’s Aishwarya Mishra. The Paris Olympic Video games qualification time in girls’s 400m is 50.95 seconds.
Highlight may even be on Maharashtra’s shot putter Abha Khatua, who improved nationwide file to 18.41m throughout a home meet earlier in Could in Bhubaneswar. The automated qualification mark in girls’s shot put is eighteen.80m.