India National Thread

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Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj came agonisingly close to achieving the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) in 100m backstroke at the 2021 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy, on Friday.

He clocked 53.90 seconds to win the time-trial race but was 0.05 seconds short of the OQT set at 53.85 seconds for the Tokyo Olympics.

 

The Bengaluru-based athlete is one of the two swimmers recommended by the Swimming Federation of India (SFI) for the Tokyo Games under the universality quota.

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Sajan Prakash has qualified for Tokyo. He has become first Indian swimmer to go below OQT. 
 

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The Indian men’s 4x400m relay team of Muhammed Anas, Amoj Jacob, Arokia Rajiv and Noah Nirmal Tom edged closer to a Tokyo Olympics berth with a fine performance at the 60th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships.

 

The Indian quartet clocked 3:01.89s to win their heats at the National Institute of Sports in Patiala.

 

The run is set to lift them up to the 13th spot on World Athletics’ Road to Olympic Games 2020 rankings. They were previously on 16th, courtesy a 3:02.59s run at a meet in Turkey back in 2019.

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Star sprinter Hima Das on Saturday suffered an injury scare after sustaining a muscle pull during the 100m heats at the ongoing National Inter-State Athletics Championships.

However, the severity of her injury could not be ascertained.

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The national tennis federation (AITA) has requested the International Tennis Federation (ITF) to consider Ankita Raina's bronze-medal winning performance at the 2018 Asian Games for a place in the women's singles draw of the Tokyo Olympics since the gold and silver medallists from China are eligible for a direct entry due to their higher ranks.

It remains to be seen if Rohan Bopanna (38) and Divij Sharan (75) will get entry in the men's doubles. Their combined rank of 113 as of 14 June means that their qualification would depend on withdrawal of teams from other nations.

If India won't be able to field a team in the men's doubles, then the country will also go unrepresented in the mixed doubles event since the 16-team competition will have players only from main draws of other events.

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13 hours ago, Dolby said:

Sajan Prakash has qualified for Tokyo. He has become first Indian swimmer to go below OQT. 
 

This is one hell of the path breaking performance for India. Hope today Srihari would also break OQT in 100m backstroke.

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Injury mars Indian Olympic campaigns in past week. Bajrang, Hima n Dutee have injury scare with Hima looking bad and sure of being out. Dutee looked to have picked a niggle hope she regains fitness. Bajrang needs to be 100% match fit.

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Neeraj Chopra hurled the spear to a distance of 86.79 meters for bronze at the Kuortane Games. He looks to cross 90m in the Olympics. 

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20 year old Gurindervir Singh won the men's 100 meters dash with a meet record of 10.27 seconds at the National Inter-State Athletics Championships. He was just 0.01s away from the NR.

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17 yr old Shaili Singh broke U20 long jump with a leap of 6.48m.