India National Thread

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11 hours ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

Indian Grand Prix was category E, so does anyone know what category shall be Nationals. Higher the category more the ranking points 

I think its B if not mistaken. To benefit Indians AFI made Inter state has nationals n not Federation Cup which normally is.

[Siddhartha Talukdar 244]

3 minutes ago, Prashanth said:

I think its B if not mistaken. To benefit Indians AFI made Inter state has nationals n not Federation Cup which normally is.

According to this document, Indian Grand Prix 4 is in Category E
https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/60c780b3775d5b98b19c196c.pdf

As per my understanding, the Nationals shall also be in Category E as mentioned in this link
https://www.worldathletics.org/world-ranking-rules/basics

[Prashanth 183]

37 minutes ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

According to this document, Indian Grand Prix 4 is in Category E
https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/60c780b3775d5b98b19c196c.pdf

As per my understanding, the Nationals shall also be in Category E as mentioned in this link
https://www.worldathletics.org/world-ranking-rules/basics

Okay I stand corrected...

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Indian wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia and Ravi Kumar were on Monday seeded in their respective categories.

 

• Both Bajrang and Deepak have been seeded second in the 65kg and 86kg category
• Ravi has been seeded fourth in the 57kg.
• Vinesh is the top seed in the 53kg category

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Srihari and Maana have been named from Indian side for the olympics through universality quota. Barring last minute OQT achievers it would be these 2 who will go to Tokyo.

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Quota no 70

 

Anirban Lahiri  qualify for Olympic as he finish inside Olympic cut off ranking.

 

Second Olympic for Anirban Lahiri 

 

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The schedule and entry list for Nationals is released. Athletes like Muhammad Anas, Hima Das, Dutee Chand, Tejaswin Shankar are participating and will look to qualify for Olympics. There is participation of athletes from  and  as well. However, One big issue is that since there is no international team participating in Women's 4x400m relay, the relay team can't improve their timings. The team is precariously placed at 16th position with timing of 3:29.42. Other countries timings are  3:30.02,  3:30.02,  3:30.45,  3:30.51

Entry List : https://run.indianathletics.in/60thNissac2021/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/event-wise-bib-list.pdf

Schedule: https://run.indianathletics.in/60thNissac2021/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Updated-InterState-Schedule-ver1.2.pdf

[Siddhartha Talukdar 244]

Olympic Theme Song released by IOA

 

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Archery World Cup Stage 3

 

he husband-wife duo Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das stormed into the final of the recurve mixed team event at the ongoing Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Paris. They will meet The Netherlands’ Gabriela Schloesser and Sjef Van Den Berg in the Archery World Cup gold medal match.

 

Deepika Kumari also reached semi in Individual event.

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ISSF World Cup
 

India's Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar finished seventh in the men's final, while the country's women shooters failed to get past the qualifying round in the 10m air rifle event of the ISSF World Cup here on Thursday.