India’s males’s 4x400m, combined 4x400m groups miss out on World C’ships qualification
Guangzhou, India’s marketing campaign on the World Athletics Relays led to disappointment as the lads’s 4x400m and combined 4x400m groups missed out on qualifying for the World Championships, to be held in Tokyo later this 12 months.
The combined 4x400m group of Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan, Rupal Chaudhary, Thennarasu Kayalvizhi Vishal and Subha Venkatesan clocked 3 minutes 14.81 seconds to complete fourth in warmth quantity 2.
The highest three groups in every of the 2 heats certified for the Worlds scheduled for September 13-21 within the Japanese capital.
On Saturday, the Indians had clocked 3:16.85 seconds to complete fifth in warmth quantity 3. They bought one other likelihood on Sunday to guide the World Championships berth however failed to take action.
Eight groups booked their World Championships berths on Saturday.
The boys’s 4x400m quartet of Jay Kumar, Dharmveer Choudhary, Thekkinalil Saji Manu and Rince Joseph did worse than their feminine counterparts, ending seventh with a time of three:04.49.
On Saturday, the Indian males’s 4x400m group had clocked 3:03.92 to complete fifth of their warmth. They bought one other likelihood on Sunday to guide the World Championships berth however failed to take action.
The highest 14 groups in every of the lads’s and girls’s 4x100m and 4x400m, plus the combined 4x400m, will safe their place on the Tokyo World Championships.
The remaining two locations in every occasion shall be awarded primarily based on high lists in the course of the qualification interval .
India will now hope to be amongst these two remaining groups and attempt to clock higher occasions in occasions in the course of the qualification window.
The nation had competed within the males’s 4x400m within the 2023 World Championships in Hungary, the place the Indian quartet gave a scare to the fancied United States earlier than ending second within the warmth race with the then Asian document of two:59.05.
The Indian quartet of Muhammed Anas, Amoj Jacob, Rajesh Ramesh and Muhammed Ajmal had completed fifth within the last. The identical group, nevertheless, did not qualify for the ultimate spherical within the 2024 Paris Olympics after ending fourth within the warmth race.
India fielded a recent group within the males’s 4x400m relay right here, leaving out the athletes that competed within the 2023 World Championships and the 2024 Olympics.
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