India National Thread

[Prashanth 189]

Hima Das surprised all by cracking the CWG qualifying mark of 52.00s on her debut run with 51.97s and qualifying. Looks like she would be a better quarter miler than sprint...if she gets good opponents then a sub 51 is surely possible with good practice.

[Prashanth 189]

Neeraj Chopra who had already matched the AFI’s qualifying guidelines of 81.80m at the Indian Grand Prix last month, recorded what was the second best performance of his career and the best throw ever recorded on Indian soil with a 85.94m. A strong Gold medal contender to compensate for the gold we won in Discus last time around. He is the 2nd best thrower in this season so far.

Edited March 7, 2018 by Prashanth

[Prashanth 189]

Tejinder Pal Toor needed just one throw to better the AFI’s qualifying guideline of 20.20m, by hurling the iron sphere 20.24m. If he achieves his goal of 21m in CWG a medal can be expected from him.

[Prashanth 189]

 M Sreeshankar, who leaped into the junior record books with a jump of 7.99m, he fell just 1 cm short of the AFI qualifying standard mark of 8.00m set for his event. I hope they send him to CWG. This 18 year old needs to be nurtured properly and moved forward.

[Prashanth 189]

The 22 yr old SIVA SUBRAMANI broke the NR in pole vault with a jump of 5.15m, though couldn't make it to CWG mark of 5.45m he is the best pole vaulter India has ever produced and hope he jumps 5.50m soon.

[Dolby 757]

Apart from these Tejaswini Shanker is also progressing well. I think he broke his own NR some time back while training in US. 

[Prashanth 189]

27 minutes ago, Dolby said:

Apart from these Tejaswini Shanker is also progressing well. I think he broke his own NR some time back while training in US. 

yes he is in action later today. Hopping for more better improvement and again new NR to raise the bar higher.

[Prashanth 189]

3 hours ago, Dolby said:

Apart from these Tejaswini Shanker is also progressing well. I think he broke his own NR some time back while training in US. 

T Shankar breaks his NR with new height of 2.28m and qualifies for the CWG together with Siddharth Yadav who jumped 2.26m. Both heights being the PB of both the athletes.

[Prakash 50]

#Archery
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India Won 2 Gold Medal ( Muskan Kirar - Compound Women and Promila Daimary - Recurve Women ) and 2 Bronze Medal (Gaurav Trambak - Recurve men and Madhu Vedwan - Recurve Women) in ongoing Asia Cup Stage 1 OGQ 
 

[Prakash 50]

beat the host 5-1 in Sultan Azlan Shah tournament