AFI Media
Chandigarh: Spectacular efficiency of Haryana’s steeplechase specialist Priti Lamba within the fifth leg of the Indian Grand Prix that concluded at Chandigarh on Monday has received the approval of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) choice committee for the Hangzhou Asian Video games, AFI president Adille Sumariwalla stated.
Uttar Pradesh’s quarter-miler Prachi and Assam’s sprinter Amlan Borgohain have additionally received AFI choice committee approval to compete on the Asian Video games scheduled to start from September 23. The monitor and area occasions will begin September 29.
Prachi will compete within the girls’s 4x400m relay, whereas Borgohain will compete within the males’s 200m. His season finest was 20.55 seconds.
The AFI choice panel has dropped injured Akshdeep Singh and changed by Vikash Singh within the males’s 20km race stroll.
Bal Kishan missed the prospect to make the lower for the Asian Video games as he trailed at seventh place within the males’s steeplechase. He clocked 8:55.96 secs.
The women and men’s 4x100m relay groups weren’t chosen for the Asian Video games.
The boys’s crew clocked 39.24 seconds and the ladies’s squad time was 45.66 seconds.
“The Indian Grand Prix leg in Chandigarh was likelihood for me to show my health. I’m excited to have earned a ticket to China,” Priti stated.
Hangzhou Asian Video games certain Tamil Nadu’s 24 years previous R Vithya Ramraj too hogged the limelight as she narrowly missed the nationwide girls’s 400m hurdles file of 55.42 seconds clocked by legendary PT Usha on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Video games.
Working in lane quantity 5 Vithya ran a race of her life to clock 55.43 seconds within the 400m hurdles on the ultimate day of the fifth leg of the Indian Grand Prix on Monday. “I simply missed that lengthy standing file by a fraction. I’m not upset however extra assured of breaking that lengthy standing file in my subsequent race,” Vithya stated within the post-race interplay.
On Sunday, the opening day of the IGP, she dominated the ladies’s 400m clocking 52.40 seconds.
Vithya was assured of a podium on the Hangzhou Asian Video games beginning September 23 in China. “The competitors in China might be more difficult. It’s going to actually give me an opportunity to additional enhance my efficiency,” she added.
At Bhubaneswar’s nationwide inter state athletics championships held in June, Vithya gained the 400m hurdles with a time of 56.01 secs. “I used to be a bit drained throughout the race as I used to be competing in two races in Bhubaneswar. However I knew I may do higher in future,” Vithya recollects.
Outcomes:
800m: Ankesh Chaudhary (Himachal Pradesh) 1:48.12 secs, Sree Kiran (Tamil Nadu) 1:48.66 secs, Prakash Gadade (Maharashtra) 1:48.88 secs.
400m hurdles: Yashas P (Karnataka) 49.69 seconds (Karnataka), Dhaval Mahesh Utekar (Gujarat) 51.23 secs, Vijay Singh Malik (Haryana) 51.25 secs.
3000m steeplechase: MD Nur Hasan (Uttar Pradesh) 8:35.00, Ankit Rajesh (Haryana) 8:44.04 secs, Pukeshwar Lal (Chhattisgarh) 8:44.90 secs.
Shot put: Sahib Singh (Delhi) 18.29m, Amandeep Singh (Punjab) 18.28m, Paramjeet Singh (Chandigarh) 17.38m.
Lengthy bounce: Aditya Kumar Singh (Madhya Pradesh) 7.62m, Rishabh Rishishwar (Uttar Pradesh) 7.53m, Sahil Mahabali (Haryana) 7.46m.
4x100m relay: Group A: Harjit Singh, Amlan Borgohain, Amiya Kumar Mallick, Siva Kumar B 39.24 secs, Group B: 40.63 secs. Group C: 41.64 secs.
Girls:
400m hurdles: R Vithya Ramraj (Tamil Nadu) 55.43 seconds, Sinchal Kaveramma (Karnataka) 58.46 secs, Ramandeep Kaur (Punjab) 1:01.02 secs.
3000m steeplechase: Priti Lamba (Haryana) 9: 45.13 secs, Kajalben Dineshbhai (Gujarat) 12:56.12 secs.
Hammer throw: Tanya Chaudhary (UP) 62.60m, KM Rachna (UP) 60.71m, KM Fatma (UP) 49.70m.
Discus throw: Seema (Uttar Pradesh) 57.96m, Anisha (Delhi) 47.72m. Sunita of Haryana didn’t compete.
Excessive bounce: Rubina Yadav (Haryana) 1.79m, Abhinaya S Shetty (Karnataka) 1.79m, Rekha (Haryana) 1.70m.
4x100m relay: Group A: Nithya Gandhe, Vijaya Kumari, Srabani Nanda, Jyothi Yarraji 44.66 secs. Group B: 45.36. Group C: 47.90m.