India National Thread

[nitinsanker 207]

On 5/2/2016 at 20:58, Prashanth said:

We have secured two quota places, one each in men's and women's categories. Now we will be holding trials to select the best two lifters who will represent India at the Rio Games," IWLF vice-president Sahdev Yadav said.
Yadav said if Mirabai Chanu can improve her performance by four kilograms in the next three months, she would stand a good chance of a podium finish at the Rio Games.

"Mirabai came up with an impressive show at Tashkent and we will ensure that she works harder to improve by another four kgs. If she manages to achieve that, she has a good chance of winning a bronze medal at Olympics," Yadav said. The bronze medallist at 2012 London Olympics in women's 48kg category had a total lift 192kg.

 

After this is there any chance for anyone else in Women's category....

 

 

 

 

As I have been following weightlifting ......only Mirabai is world class she has improved recently under Kunjaranis coaching ....I feel without a doubt 2-5 Kg improvement is possible ....... she shoudl be counted as a reasonable medal prospect in rio ....I do not see any one else even close barring sanjita chanu but chanu is far from the medal prospects .... The only other possible top 10 weightlifter is Punam ....... but Mirabai stands alone ..........

 

She is lifting 190 ......... There are two chiness who are lifting 205 or so but china will nominate only 1 ....... so the chinese lifter barring a miracle or injury  will be first ............ then Miyake whose season best  was 193 ( but has a PB of 200 ) she would be the second seed ( but she is not in great form and can be overtaken provided ......then there is vuang  ( VIE )  who is alternating between 194 and 188 .. Then there is Ri ( PRK ) with a season best of 191  who again can be overtaken ....then there is Khamsri of THA... so with a couple of Kgs increase she can be in the medals..... so barring the first position which seems reserved for the chinese she is in a group who can compete for the medals ...... 

 

 

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In men there are more probables ...In order I feel given recent performances it is likely to be Vikas Thakur .......alternatively only Sathish is possible ...next would deru jamjang ... I think they can have a lift off between these three and possible Venkata Ragala ( who is well behind Vikas currently in 85- weight category ) and see who does the best 

 

I think the weightlifting qualifications have closed for effectively for us so we will have exactly 1 + 1 weightlifters in the olympics ..................In women it would be Mirabai and for men one of the above three ..........

 

 

 

Edited May 4, 2016 by nitinsanker

[Alessandro Penko 0]

Dipa Karmakar has become the first female Indian gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, after giving an astounding performance at the final qualifying event in Rio de Janeiro.

The 22-year-old is also the first gymnast from the country to participate in the Olympics since 1964.

 

http://www.desiblitz.com/content/first-indian-woman-gymnast-qualifies-for-olympics

 

What do you think about it?

What can we expect from this new young talent?

[nitinsanker 207]

1 hour ago, Alessandro Penko said:

Dipa Karmakar has become the first female Indian gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, after giving an astounding performance at the final qualifying event in Rio de Janeiro.

The 22-year-old is also the first gymnast from the country to participate in the Olympics since 1964.

 

http://www.desiblitz.com/content/first-indian-woman-gymnast-qualifies-for-olympics

 

What do you think about it?

What can we expect from this new young talent?

 

 

 

definitely a finalist in vault ................. difficult to be a medalist in vault ....but surely going to be up there .................so a matter for all of us to be very proud 

[Prashanth 184]

Very good performance in Junior athletics..

[Prashanth 184]

India would be represented by good amount of athletes for the World Junior Athletics Championships in July....

Few notable athletes qualified are

Men

400m - Pankaj Malik(47.10), Chandan Bauri (47.12)   -  QT (47.70)

Long Jump - Yugant Singh (7.56)     - QT (7.55)

10,000m W - Sunil 44:11.60      - QT 44:20.0

 

Women

100m  - Dutee Chand (11.33s)  - QT 11.80

1500m - Lili Das (4:20.31) ,Harmilan kaur (4:28.05)  - QT (4:28.20)

 

[Prashanth 184]

No Indians in the Doha Diamond League....

[nitinsanker 207]

2 hours ago, Prashanth said:

India would be represented by good amount of athletes for the World Junior Athletics Championships in July....

Few notable athletes qualified are

Men

400m - Pankaj Malik(47.10), Chandan Bauri (47.12)   -  QT (47.70)

Long Jump - Yugant Singh (7.56)     - QT (7.55)

10,000m W - Sunil 44:11.60      - QT 44:20.0

 

Women

100m  - Dutee Chand (11.33s)  - QT 11.80

1500m - Lili Das (4:20.31) ,Harmilan kaur (4:28.05)  - QT (4:28.20)

 

 

 

 

 

Indian hopes would lie with  Beant singh  had already made the timing in the fed senior cup and he is the asian champion she is world no 10 in this years 800 m juniors ...also neeraj chopra is the most likely to podium qualification standard 68 m - his length 82+ consistently and he is world no amongst juniors ... he is most probably going to be Indias first gold medal in any world championship at any level in athletics ... third most likely to medal would be lili das she is at 9th position for this years 1500 ... I am hoping for 3 finalists for the first time ever 

 

Duttee is not eligible and is no longer considered a junior ( she is born 1996 and the event is open for athletes born in 1997 ) ......she is truly an awesome talent as she can shave at least .2 to .3 as she moves into the senior ........... short distance runners reach their prime at 24-28 years ..............

Edited May 4, 2016 by nitinsanker

[nitinsanker 207]

I am so impressed with the Indian standards in athletics recently ................

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going by the Asian games standards of 2014 ( if we take the scores over the last few months especially the recent federation cup )

 

we seem to be at the medal contention  level in all the male events except decathlon / pole vault / high jump / 110 m hurdles 

we seem to be at the medal contention level in all female events except 100mh and pole vault 

 

 

 

so if you look at it in 41 of the 47 athletic events we seem to be at a medal contention level ................. and going by the timings in 19 of the women events and 13 of the men events we would have won medals which is really huge ( in the remaining 9 events out of the 41 we would have been at 4/5/6 positions ) ..................

 

If I see the situation even 3 years ago we would have been in medal contention in about 20 of the events ending up with 13 medals at the Asian games ... with the current standards we could hope to almost surely double the medals 

 

another highlight is the abundant junior talent ........ beant singh ( he is world number one at under 18 )   and neeraj chopra ( he is world number 1 at under 20 )  and lili das are at world class levels currently .... Duttee is just out of juniors 

 

Edited May 4, 2016 by nitinsanker

[Vivek 6]

So go by the recent performance in athletics, can we hope for atleast 4-5 more quota in rio? If we add 4x400 women relay than can it be 8-10?

 

[Vivek 6]

Dear freinds be ready to celebrate India's new record that will be created anytime now today, with morethan 90 days to go for rio2016, once bwf official ranking for rio qualification will be out, it will become offical that India will be sending its largest contingent in Olympics... Chak de India...