Girls quartet of Vithya Ramraj, M R Poovamma, Prachi Choudhary and Rupal Chaudhary gained the silver within the ladies’s 4x400m relay on the Asian Relay Championships in Bangkok on Might 21, 2024. Photograph: X/@India_AllSports
Fielding under-strength groups after having certified for the Paris Olympics, each the boys’s and girls’s 4x400m quartets completed second on the inaugural Asian Relay Championships in Bangkok on Might 21.
The ladies’s crew of Vithya Ramraj, M R Poovamma, Prachi Choudhary and Rupal Chaudhary clocked 3 minutes 33.55 seconds to complete behind Vietnam (3:30.81) within the ladies’s 4x400m relay ultimate, which was performed amid thundershowers on the Suphachalasai Nationwide Stadium. Japan gained the bronze medal with 3:35.45.
Vietnam runners had been forward all by the race.
Vithya and Prachi weren’t a part of the Indian quartet that clocked 3 minutes and 29.35 seconds to ebook a Paris Olympics quota in the course of the World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas earlier this month.
Jyothika Sri Dandi and Subha Venkatesan had teamed up with Poovamma and Rupal on that event.
The lads’s quartet of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Santosh Kumar, Mijo Chacko Kurian and Arokia Rajiv additionally failed to face on prime of the rostrum as they clocked 3:05.76 to complete second behind Sri Lanka (3:04.48). Vietnam was third with 3:07.37.
The Sri Lankan crew was forward after the primary leg however Santosh put India within the lead within the second. Chacko stored India within the lead after the third leg however Sri Lanka’s anchor runner Hewa Kalinga Kumarge overtook Arokia on the ultimate stretch.
Santosh and Chacko weren’t a part of the Indian quartet that clocked 3 minutes and three.23 seconds to ebook a Paris Olympics quota in the course of the World Athletics Relays in Bahamas earlier this month.
Muhammed Ajmal and Amoj Jacob had teamed up with Muhammed Anas Yahiya and Arokia Rajiv on that event.
Muhammed Ajmal and Amoj Jacob had teamed up with Jyothika Sri Dandi and Subha Venkatesan for the combined 4x400m race on Monday as India was aiming to enter the Paris Olympics bracket in that occasion. The quartet was the primary selection members of the combined 4x400m crew and so they had been thus not fielded on Tuesday within the males’s and girls’s relays.
On Monday, the Indian combined 4×400 relay crew set a nationwide document whereas profitable the gold medal however missed the goal of getting into the Paris Olympics qualification bracket.
The quartet of Muhammed Ajmal, Jyothika Sri Dandi, Amoj Jacob and Subha Venkatesan clocked 3 minutes 14.12 seconds to win the race. The sooner nationwide document of three:14.34 was clocked by the Indian crew whereas profitable silver medal on the Hangzhou Asian Video games final 12 months.
Monday’s timing would put the Indian combined 4x400m crew on the twenty first place — from earlier twenty third — within the Highway to Paris listing of World Athletics whereas the purpose was to be both within the fifteenth or sixteenth spot.
India, thus, is in a troublesome place to make the Olympics minimize as solely sixteen groups will compete within the combined 4x400m relay occasion in Paris.
India’s goal on Monday was to at the very least higher 3:13.56 and sit on the sixteenth spot, however the nation failed to take action.