Prime athletes to participate in Nationwide inter-state meet in Chennai

With the Nationwide inter-state athletics meet on the Nehru Stadium right here from August 20 to 24 being the ultimate choice trials for subsequent month’s World championships (September 13 to 21), nearly all of athletes will probably be desperate to make the minimize.

To date, solely 4 — Neeraj Chopra (javelin), Gulveer Singh (males’s 5000m), Parul Chaudhary (ladies’s 3000m steeplechase), Praveen Chitravel (males’s triple leap) — have made it to the Worlds by means of entry requirements.

Tamil Nadu Athletics Affiliation first hosted the Nationwide inter-state meet manner again in 1968. The Senior Nationals have been final held right here in 2022.

Round 700 athletes representing 35 groups from throughout the nation will probably be collaborating in Chennai.

A number of the distinguished athletes from Tamil Nadu embrace Praveen Chitravel (triple leap), Vithya Ramraj (400m hurdles), Abinaya Rajarajan (100m), amongst others, are taking part.

The opposite distinguished athletes from different states embrace Nationwide javelin throw report holder Annu Rani, Punjab’s double Asian Video games champion and former Asian shot put record-holder Tajinderpal Toor Singh, three-time Asian silver medalist Tejaswin Shankar (Delhi) in excessive Soar, Kerala’s former Asian champion triple jumper Abdulla Aboobacker and 800m Asian Video games silver medallist Muhammed Afsal.

Additionally, elite sprinters Animesh Kujur from Odisha and Amlan Borgohain from Assam, lengthy leap Asian silver medallist Murali Sreeshankar from Kerala, ace hurdlers Tejas Shirse (Maharashtra) and Pragyan Sahu (Odisha) are among the many few prime names who’re within the fray.