Tajinder Toor qualifies for Tokyo Olympics with record-breaking display at IGP 4
Shot-putter Tajinder Singh Toor certified for the Tokyo Olympics with a brand new nationwide list on the Indian Grand Prix Four right here on an afternoon when the nationwide girls’s 4x100m relay group and sprinter Dutee Chand additionally breached the former perfect marks within the nation.
Toor crossed the Olympic Qualification mark with a throw of 21.49m and broke his personal Nationwide File. The Olympic Qualifying effort on this tournament is 21.10m.
RECORDS RAINING at #IGP Four Patiala
Shot Putter @Tajinder_Singh3 crosses Olympic Qualification mark with a throw of 21.49m and breaks his personal Nationwide File. OQ- 21.10He did it two times with every other throw of 21.28m@KirenRijiju @kaypeem
— Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) June 21, 2021
The former list, which used to be additionally in Toor’s identify, stood at 20.92m and used to be set in 2019.
The ladies’s relay group, then again, failed to position itself throughout the Olympic qualifying bracket regardless of the list effort of its personal.
The quartet of Hima Das, Dutee Chand, S Dhanalakshmi and Archana Suseendran clocked 43.37 seconds to win the race forward of India ‘B’ group (48.02 seconds) and Maldives (50.74) within the 3 group race.
The Indian group bettered the former list of 43.42 seconds set in 2016 in Almaty through the quartet of Merlin Ok Joseph, H M Jyothi, Srabani Nanda and Dutee.
Dutee Chand rewrites her nationwide mark once more with a blistering 11.17s run however falls agonisingly in need of the #Tokyo2020 qualification mark of 11.15s.
Percent: information pic.twitter.com/gnbFp68Irz— Andrew Amsan (@AndrewAmsan) June 21, 2021
However the quartet did not clock underneath 43.05 seconds had to be a few of the most sensible 16 groups within the Street to Tokyo listing.
16 group will run within the girls’s 4x100m relay race in Tokyo Video games.
India used to be positioned 22nd ahead of Monday’s race at the foundation of its 43.81 seconds efficiency right through the 2019 Asian Championships. Monday’s 43.37 seconds will take India to the 20th spot.
Olympic-bound Kamalpreet Kaur bettered her previous nationwide list mark in girls’s discus throw through hurling the iron disc to a distance of 66.59m.
However her efficiency may not be counted as the brand new nationwide list as she used to be the lone competitor within the tournament.
“As in line with laws, for nationwide list functions, the choice of competition must no less than be 3. So, her efficiency may not be counted as nationwide list. However it’s going to be thought to be for different functions like rating,” AFI Secretary Ravinder Chaudhry advised PTI.
Kaur had change into the rustic’s first girl discus thrower to breach the 65m mark with a countrywide list mark of 65.06m right through the Federation Cup right here in March, which additionally booked her a place within the Tokyo Olympics.
File Alert- Kamalpreet Kaur improves her personal nationwide list with a throw of 66.59m in Girls Discus Throw in #IGP Four at Patiala. Her earlier perfect used to be 65.06m which she accomplished at Federation Cup in March 2021 #Tokyo2020 @SonySportsIndia pic.twitter.com/tJtbCcjTOA
— Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) June 21, 2021
Her efficiency on Monday will position her eighth within the Street to Tokyo listing, and may just put her within the medal rivalry bracket.
The bronze medal winners within the 2012 and 2016 Olympics got here up with 66.38m and 65.34m efforts respectively.
Sprinter Dutee Chand additionally shattered a countrywide list within the girls’s 100m tournament. She finished the race in 11.17seconds. On the other hand, the Olympic Qualification time on this tournament is 11.15s.
The former list used to be 11.21 seconds, additionally created through Dutee.
