India National Thread

[Prakash 50]

1 hour ago, gvaisakh said:

Think he's rested

Yes..http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/hockey/pr-sreejesh-rested-sardar-singh-to-lead-experimental-squad-at-sultan-azlan-shah-cup/

[Prashanth 175]

18 minutes ago, Prakash said:

Yes..http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/hockey/pr-sreejesh-rested-sardar-singh-to-lead-experimental-squad-at-sultan-azlan-shah-cup/

Sreejesh was telling to find a replacement for him and this is the good chance to try someone and get an alternative...He is getting old and we need to find a good alternative   to sreejesh...

[nitinsanker 202]

As per the report by Hindu .....there was an open event at the same time as the Asian 20 Km race walking event and two Indians clocked 1:20 times ( better than Gurmeets 1:20 )  , and one of them equalled irfans national record  at 1:20:21................    This is great news as then there were 3 indians recording 1:20 timings in one event ...it is only a matter of time that they break the 1:20 barrier and reach 1:19 or so which could put them into medal contention at the olympics ( 2015 IAAF world championship 20km gold medal was 1:19:14 and bronze at 1:19:57 ) 

 

"Interestingly Devender equalled the four-year-old national record of K.T. Irfan while finishing fifth overall in 1:20.21s while Manish was sixth in 1:20.26"

 

 

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/gold-for-gurmeet-but-rio-still-in-doubt/article8382725.ece

 

[gvaisakh 23]

Indian Athletes who have achieved the Qualification Standard (Max 3 per NOC in each event)

Men

Marathon (3) - Nitender Singh, Thonakal Gopi, Kheta Ram

20km Walk (9, max 3) - Gurmeet Singh, Krishnan Ganapathi, Sandeep Kumar, Irfan K T, Manish Singh, Davinder Singh, Baljinder Singh, Chandan Singh, Neeraj

50km Walk (2) - Sandeep Kumar, Manish Singh

Shotput (1) - Inderjeet Singh

Discus Throw (1) - Vikas Gowda

 

Women

800m (1) - Tintu Lukka

3000m Steeplechase (1) - Lalita Babar

Marathon (4, max 3) - O P Jaisha, Sudha Singh, Kavita Raut, Lalita Babar (Lalita announced that she will not participate in Marathon at Rio)

20km Walk (2) - Khushbir Kaur, Sapna Punia

Shotput (1) - Manpreet Kaur

 

 

Who can still qualify (the best effort during the qualification period is indicated)

Men
200m - Dharambir Singh (20.66s - 0.16s behind)
400m - Arokia Rajiv (45.57s - 0.17s behind)
Long Jump - Prem Kumar (8.01m - 0.14m behind), Ankit Sharma (7.89m - 0.26m behind)
Triple Jump - Renjith Maheswary (16.45m - 0.40m behind)
Javelin - Neeraj Chopra (82.23m - 0.77m behind)

 

Women
400m - Poovamma Raju (52.60s - 0.40s behind), Anilda Thomas (52.71s - 0.51s behind)
10000m - Loganathan Surya (32:39.86s - 0:24.86s behind), O P Jaisha (33:03.91s - 0:48.91s behind)
3000m Steeplechase - Sudha Singh (9:47.31s - 0:2.31s behind)
Triple Jump - Mayookha Johny (13.85m - 0.30m behind)
Javelin - Suman Devi (59.45m - 2.55m behind), Annu Rani (58.85m - 3.15m behind)
4*400m Relay - 8 slots available. India is currently 9th best among the nations not qualified. But Russia is suspended. So India is upto 8th hanging by thread

[Prakash 50]

Candidates Chess 2016

 

Viswanathan beats Levon in Round 09

 

Now he is the joint leader with Sergey with 5.5 points

[Suneet 16]

Hi guys,

 

Do any of you own or know someone who runs a sports related blog? PM me if you do. Planning to start one myself. 

[Prashanth 175]

Was reading the news and found this story....

Not sad...having that post is good. But its unfortunate that no one recognizes them...I agree with him when he says, If they don't recognize why should he go n intro himself...I was a great fan of Gagan rather then Rajpal to be true..

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/icc-world-t20-2016/top-stories/Rajpal-Singh-Leader-in-hockey-guardian-in-cricket/articleshow/51506238.cms

[gvaisakh 23]

47 minutes ago, Suneet said:

Hi guys,

 

Do any of you own or know someone who runs a sports related blog? PM me if you do. Planning to start one myself. 

 

I started a blog & fb page few months ago.. Wrote only 1 article in the blog.. Not getting time.. So I stopped it.. I used wordpress. Now my studies are over.. But I am wondering whether to restart or not.. Will depend on my job.. If my company prefers, I might start writing articles in my company website blog

[Harsh Shah 4]

I would like to join in blogging... Am running an fb page myself by the name India at Olympics 2k16... not having much time though... a small effort from my side...

 

https://www.facebook.com/India-at-Olympics-2k16-454759521390000/?ref=hl

[Prashanth 175]

we all are running a page each in facebook..Let us all join together and share each other page and info and spread across and then make a one huge fan base.