New Delhi
Rejuvenated Indian relay groups earned tickets to the Paris Olympic Video games on Sunday evening at Nassau’s Thomas A Robinson Stadium in Bahamas.
The Indian quarter milers grabbed the chance with each fingers through the second leg of the Paris Olympic Video games qualification spherical of the World Relays in Bahamas. Regrouped women and men’s 4x400m relay groups completed second of their respective heats and certified for the Olympic Video games.
As per World Athletics relay qualification rule, the primary two groups in every warmth on Sunday joined a gaggle of groups that had already certified for Paris Olympic Video games on Saturday.
The lads’s group consisting of Muhammad Anas, Muhammad Ajmal, Arokia Rajiv and Amoj Jacob posted a time of three:03.23 seconds, a season finest, to complete second of their warmth.
The opening day of the World Relays on Saturday wasn’t productive for the Indian quarter millers. After a very good begin by Muhammad Anas, the second leg runner Rajesh Ramesh wasn’t capable of proceed as he fell down across the first bend attributable to muscle cramping.
The Indian group didn’t compete within the combined 4x400m occasion on Sunday.
The ladies’s group was equally spectacular on Sunday. The group of Rupal Chaudhary, Jyothika Sri Dandi, MR Poovamma and Subha V pushed exhausting to clock a time of three:29.35 seconds to complete second of their warmth and certified for the Paris Olympic Video games.
On Saturday, the Indian ladies’s 4x400m relay group gave a very good account of themselves, clocking a time of three:29.74 seconds however completed fifth of their warmth. Solely the highest two groups bought tickets to the Olympics.
On Sunday the athletes dig deep into their reserve to make sure clean passage to the Paris Olympic Video games scheduled to be held in France from July 26 to August 11.