Despite attaining the qualification commonplace and ending third in the National Federation Athletics Championships which concluded right here on Thursday, sprinter Manikanta Hoblidhar doesn’t discover a place in the 100m in the Indian crew for subsequent month’s Asian Championships in Gumi, South Korea.
Karnataka’s Manikanta had damaged the 100m meet file in the semifinal, clocking 10.25s which can also be the qualification commonplace set by the Athletics Federation of India for the Asians however the selectors weren’t impressed.
“Had he finished first or second, he would have been considered,” defined National chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair after the crew was introduced right here on Friday.
“We have also not included Gurindervir Singh who clocked 10.20s (breaking the national record) in the recent Indian Grand Prix in Bengaluru because he finished last in the Federation Nationals (with 11.21).”
Incidentally, Mankanta had clocked 10.22s in that Bengaluru meet.
Neeraj not in the fray
World champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, who can be in motion in the Neeraj Chopra Classic in Bengaluru on May 24, won’t be going for the Asian Championships which start on May 27.
Asian and Asian Games champion Tajinderpal Singh Toor is one of the outstanding names lacking in the listing. The former Asian record-holder (private finest 21.77m, 2023), who has been combating accidents the final couple of years, suffered his first loss in almost eight years ending second in the Federation Nationals right here on Thursday with 18.77m (AFI’s Asian qualification commonplace: 19.1m).
While asserting the crew for the Asians, AFI president Bahadur Singh Sagoo revealed that the federation won’t embody athletes who qualify for this September’s Tokyo World Championships via the world rankings route at the final minute, after the withdrawal of athletes above them in the world rating listing. But the selectors could have the remaining say on the matter.
The Indian crew: Men: 200m: Animesh Kujur; 800m: Anu Kumar, Krishan Kumar; 1500m: Yoonus Shah; 3000m steeplechase: Avinash Sable; 5000m: Gulveer Singh, Abhishek Pal; 10,000m: Gulveer Singh, Sawan Barwal; triple soar: Praveen Chithravel, Abdulla Aboobacker; excessive soar: Sarvesh Kushare; shot put: Samardeep Singh Singh; javelin throw: Sachin Yadav, Yashvir Singh; decathlon: Tejaswin Shankar; 20km race stroll: Servin Sebastian, Amit; 4x100m relay: Pranav Pramod Gurav, Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidhar, Amlan Borgohain, S. Tamilarasu, G. Ragul Kumar, Gurindervir Singh; 4x400m relay: T.Okay. Vishal, Jay Kumar, T.S. Manu, Rince Joseph, Dharamveer Chaudhary, Tushar Manna, Santosh Kumar, Mohit Kumar.
Women: 200m: Nithya Gandhe; 400m: Rupal Chaudhary, Vithya Ramraj; 800m: Twinkle Chaudhary, Pooja; 1500m: Lili Das, Pooja; 3000m steeplechase: Parul Chaudhary, Ankita; 5000m: Sanjivani Jadhav, Parul Chaudhary; 10000m: Sanjivani Jadhav, Seema; 100m hurdles: Jyothi Yarraji; 400m hurdles: Vithya Ramraj, R. Anu; lengthy soar: Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan; excessive soar: Pooja; discus throw: Seema; javelin throw: Annu Rani; heptathlon: Agasara Nandini; 4x100m relay: Nithya Gandhe, Abhinaya Rajarajan, S.S. Sneha, Srabani Nanda, A.T. Daneshwari, V Sudeeksha; 4x400m relay: Rupal, Okay. Sneha, Subha Venkatesan, Jisna Mathew, Kunja Rajitha, Sandramol Sabu.
Published – April 25, 2025 08:51 pm IST
