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 reduce for the Paris Olympic Online games ahead of the June 30 deadline.
The athletes can receive tickets to the 2024 Olympics either by way of computerized qualification typical or Entire world Athletics ranking process in their respective occasions.
Until day more than 10 Indian athletes, like Olympic and globe champion Neeraj Chopra, have obtained Paris Olympic Online games computerized qualification common, in their respective gatherings.
The 2nd leg of IGP has attracted a variety of promising athletes possibly aiming for an automated qualification in their respective functions, or improving personal finest to receive precious details and keep on class to board flight to compete at the Paris Olympic Video games starting July 26.
Tamil Nadu’s 26 a long time old Asian medalist, Santosh Kumar T, fresh new from winning gold in men’s 400m hurdles (50.04 seconds) at the just concluded Nationwide Federation Senior Athletics Levels of competition held in Bhubaneswar, will absolutely look forward to breaking the 50 seconds barrier in minimal hurdles on Thursday. “It’s essential to dip beneath 50 seconds in the 400m hurdles to remain in the race to receive a ticket to the Paris Olympic Online games,” Santosh said right after winning gold in Bhubaneswar.
The men’s 400m hurdles will be the initially monitor occasion of the A single-Working day fulfill in Chennai.
As per the entries, Santosh has also confirmed his participation in the 400m flat.
The automatic Paris Olympic Online games 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 worldwide lower hurdler MP Jabir will also be in action in Chennai. He will also compete in both of those 400m flat and 400m hurdles, as for every entries.
In the women’s 400m hurdles, 2nd track occasion of the day, the main concentrate will be on Tamil Nadu’s Asian Online games medalist, Vithya Ramraj.
In the men’s triple leap, Abdulla Aboobacker and Karthik U have confirmed their entries. The computerized qualification mark in men’s triple bounce is 17.22m.
In the women’s 400m flat, Kerala’s international quarter miler, Jisna Mathew, will be battling for major place with Maharashtra’s Aishwarya Mishra. The Paris Olympic Game titles qualification time in women’s 400m is 50.95 seconds.
Spotlight will also be on Maharashtra’s shot putter Abha Khatua, who improved nationwide record to 18.41m throughout a domestic meet earlier in May in Bhubaneswar. The automated qualification mark in women’s shot set is 18.80m.