Road to Paris 2024: Mixed 4x400m Relay 🏃♀️🏃♂️
Can India still qualify for the Mixed 4x400m Relay? Here is the qualification scenario...
https://thesportsgram.in/2024/05/06/paris-2024-4x400m-mixed-relay-qualification
I think we can count 10 athletes for 2 relays , as each relay team has an official squad allocation of 5 athletes. Similar to hockey/football where squad allocation is 16/18 players but 11 will be on the field.
So Another 10 added to the contingent which takes us to 83 in 12 sports
And so do the men!!! Our contingent increases by 8 now. We still have a chance for qualifying for mixed team if we get top 2 timings among non qualified nations. There is Asian Relays later this month
https://www.asianathletics.com/events/asian-relays/
I think we have 2 genuine medal prospects this time. Shetty/Rankireddy and Sen. I feel Lakshya is a great medal prospect if he gets a bit lucky with the draw.
Officially we add 7 more athletes as Badminton qualification ends today. So the players who qualify are
Men's Singles: HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen
Women's Singles: PV Sindhu
Men's Doubles: Chirag Shetty / Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Women's Doubles: Ashwini Ponnappa / Tanisha Crasto
Bhavani Devi lost her SF
Tanisha Khatri has qualified for final but will face the top seed .
After a promising start by Karan singh , eventually we might end up with no quota in fencing
Hoping Tanisha can salvage a quota for us
For archery is there a separate ranking list for Olympic qualification? Or is this the ranking that will be used: https://www.worldarchery.sport/rankings/world-ranking?category=Recurve Women&event=Team?
I think it will be Priyanka plus one of the men. So maybe one additional quota. Which one do you reckon? Maybe Arshdeep will focus on this event & not individual one.
Mixed relay team in marathon race walking qualifies to Olympics by finishing 18th at the world race walking championships.
Arshdeep singh & Priyanka were pairing up together. Remains to be seen which team AFI decides for Paris.
Qualified for mixed race walking relay event as pair of Arshdeep Singh and Priyanka Goswami finished 18th in World Race walking relays. As quota goes to NOC we can choose to select upto 2 athletes extra in our contingent
https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-race-walking-team-championshi/antalya-24/live/7199325/30261/46704/results#
I am aware of that rowing timings are based on natural factors and thus there is no 'World record' similar to athletics as no two courses are the same. I only mentioned we have a chance of additional quota and there's no harm in participating in last qualifier