With Jyothika Sri Dandi and Subha Venkatesan clocking good timings in girls’s 4x400m relay on the World Relays (the staff at Bahamas seen right here), India has an opportunity of constructing the reduce for Paris within the Asian Relays later this month. Indian girls’s staff on the World Athletics Relays, in Nassau, Bahamas, Monday, Might 6, 2024.
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With each its males’s and girls’s 4x400m relay groups qualifying for this July’s Paris Olympics, there was double pleasure for India on the World Relays in Bahamas on Sunday.
And the combined relay staff, which did not make the reduce for the Olympics on the World Relays, will get one other likelihood to qualify for Paris on the Asian Relays in Bangkok on Might 20.
“For the reason that 4x400m women and men have already certified (for Paris), I believe we are going to do solely the combined relay on the Asians,” M.Ok. Rajmohan, the deputy chief athletics coach, informed The Hindu from Thiruvananthapuram — the relay staff’s coaching base — on Tuesday night.
“Anyway, the selectors and the chief coach will determine on that after the Federation Cup (at Bhubaneswar, Might 12-15).”
Rajmohan is assured that the combined relay runners would make the reduce for Paris in Bangkok although they must break the Nationwide file (3:14.34s, Asian Video games, China, October 2023) to realize the feat.
“We’ve two women working 51-plus (cut up timings Jyothika Sri Dandi 51.36s, Subha Venkatesan 51.65, in girls’s 4x400m at World Relays). And our boys are good, to allow them to positively go beneath 3:13.50s,” he mentioned.
With 14 slots for the Olympics already taken in Bahamas, solely two berths for Paris can be found within the combined relay and India has to clock higher than Italy’s 3:13.56s to make it to Paris by way of the World rankings route and pray that no person else clocks a greater time earlier than the June 30 deadline.
By the way, India clocked 3:20.36s and completed sixth in its combined relay warmth within the first spherical of qualification on Might 4. The aspect didn’t begin the second qualification spherical on Sunday, because the staff administration felt that the boys’s and girls’s squads (a few of them have been alleged to have run the combined relay too) had a greater likelihood of qualifying for Paris.
So, who will run the combined relay staff on the Asian Relays?
“That isn’t finalised. Rajesh Ramesh (he pulled up with an damage in qualification round-1 which introduced India a DNF in Bahamas) has to come back again, Noah Nirmal Tom (the nation’s quickest quartermiler this yr) additionally has to come back again… he has some ache in reference to the sciatic nerve, however he’s getting higher now. So I don’t know what they may determine.”