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IMAGE: Priti Lamba was added to the squad for the upcoming Asian Video games. {Photograph}: Sort courtesy Priti Lamba/Instagram
Haryana’s 3000m steeplechaser Priti Lamba was on Monday added to the Indian athletics group for the Hangzhou Asian Video games together with high sprinter Amlan Borgohain and quartermiler Prachi, after the conclusion of the Indian Grand Prix 5 in Chandigarh.
The 27-year-old Lamba received the 3000m steeplechase on the ultimate day of the IGP 5. She breached the Asian Video games qualifying time of 9 minute 47 seconds set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI), by clocking 9:45.13 in a two-woman area.
She had completed second on the Nationwide Inter-State Championships behind Parul Chaudhary with a time of 9:52.89, and improved it to 9:48.50 whereas ending fourth on the Asian Championships in July.
Uttar Pradesh’s Prachi received the approval of AFI choice committee to compete within the girls’s 4x400m relay, whereas Borgohain will compete within the males’s 200m. The sports activities ministry has already introduced a 65-member athletics group for the Asian Video games final month. Monday’s inclusion of three athletes will make it a 68-member group.
AFI president Adille Sumariwalla had earlier mentioned that Borgohain, the nationwide file holder in each males’s 100m and 200m races, will probably be added to the Asian Video games group. The AFI confirmed his inclusion within the group after a range committee assembly in Chandigarh on Monday.
The 25-year-old Assam sprinter had did not breach the qualifying normal of 20.61 seconds in each the Federation Cup and the Nationwide Inter-State Championships however had carried out so whereas profitable a bronze on the World College Video games in China final month with a time of 20.5 seconds.
The AFI choice panel additionally dropped injured males’s 20km race stroll nationwide file holder Akshdeep Singh and changed him with Vikash Singh.
The nationwide federation additionally determined to not choose the women and men’s 4x100m relay groups as they did not breach the qualifying marks.
There was a number of anticipation as as to whether the boys’s and ladies’s 4x100m relay races would breach the Asian Video games qualifying marks of 39 seconds and 44.50 seconds respectively. However each the groups’ quartets, made up of the most effective Indian runners, missed the qualifying mark.
The ladies’s Crew A 4x100m quartet of Nithya Gandhe, Vijaya Kumari, Srabani Nanda and Jyothi Yarraji clocked 44.66 — 0.16 seconds shy of the qualifying mark.
The boys’s Crew A quartet of Harjit Singh, Amlan Blorgohain, Amiya Kumar Mallick and B Siva Kumar clocked 39.24 — 0.24 seconds exterior the qualifying mark.
Sumariwalla had mentioned on the pre-event press convention that 15 athletes could also be added to the Asian Video games group, which apparently was primarily based mostly on the inclusion of 4x100m relay groups.
In the meantime, Tamil Nadu’s Asian Video games-bound R Vithya Ramraj emerged because the star of the Indian Grand Prix 5 as she got here agonisingly near breaking the legendary PT Usha’s 39-year-old girls’s 400m hurdles file, clocking 55.43 seconds on Monday.
The 24-year-old Vithya’s private greatest time was simply one-hundredth of a second lower than Usha’s 55.42 which she had clocked whereas ending fourth within the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Usha’s file is the second oldest nationwide file in athletics after Shivnath Singh’s marathon NR of 1978.
“Madam Usha is so gifted and that’s the reason her file stood for therefore lengthy. I needed to interrupt the file, it was in my thoughts earlier than the race immediately. I needed to be the brand new ma’am (Usha),” Vithya mentioned.
“I used to be a bit gradual in my first 200m after which picked up velocity. Had I run sooner within the first 200m, I’d have damaged the nationwide file immediately itself. However there may be the Asian Video games arising, and I’ll attempt to break the NR there,” the athlete added after her occasion.
Vithya has already made it to the Hangzhou Video games starting September 23 as she had breached the qualifying normal of 57.48 seconds whereas profitable gold on the Nationwide Inter-State Championships in June with a time of 56.01.
Vithya’s timing will put her within the second spot within the season’s high listing among the many Asians behind Kemi Adekoya of Bahrain who clocked a continental file time of 53.09 whereas ending fourth within the World Championships final month.
India’s Anu Raghavan had received a bronze within the 2018 Asian Video games with a time of 56.92.
Veteran discus thrower Seema Punia, representing Uttar Pradesh, additionally breached the Asian Video games qualifying distance of 57m by clearing 57.96m in her fourth spherical try. All her different 5 makes an attempt have been fouls.
The 40-year-old Punia, who had received a gold and a silver within the 2014 and 2018 editions of the Asian Video games, had already been named within the Indian group. She had received gold within the Nationwide Inter-State Championships in mid-June with a throw of 56.50m.
Bal Kishan additionally missed the prospect to make the lower as he completed at seventh place within the males’s 3000m steeplechase. He clocked 8:55.96 seconds.
Outcomes:
Males:
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 leap: Aditya Kumar Singh (Madhya Pradesh) 7.62m, Rishabh Rishishwar (Uttar Pradesh) 7.53m, Sahil Mahabali (Haryana) 7.46m.
4x100m relay: Crew A: Harjit Singh, Amlan Borgohain, Amiya Kumar Mallick, Siva Kumar B 39.24 secs, Crew B: 40.63 secs. Crew C: 41.64 secs
Ladies:
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 did not compete.
Excessive leap: Rubina Yadav (Haryana) 1.79m, Abhinaya S Shetty (Karnataka) 1.79m, Rekha (Haryana) 1.70m.
4x100m relay: Crew A: Nithya Gandhe, Vijaya Kumari, Srabani Nanda, Jyothi Yarraji 44.66 secs. Crew B: 45.36. Crew C: 47.90m.
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