The all-events World Championships in Baku will have as many as 48 Paris 2024 Olympics quota places up for grabs and Shooters living their Olympic dreams, will first have to ensure they get a spot on the team, to grab one of those quotas for the country. Following the Asian Games in Septembe
Pranati Nayak, who participates in the vault event, won two bronze medals in the Asian championships -- one in Doha and the other in Mongolia four years ago. She is the only Indian to have won several medals from the continental competition, as per Olympics.com.
At the Oregon meet, Sanjivani Jadhav, who finished third in the 2017 Asian Championships, had a sub-33 timing for the first time. At the 2022 Federation Cup in Thenhipalam, Kerala, she ran 33:13.07, which was her previous best time.
She won the gold medal in her event by breaking the games record. She appears elated and enthusiastic upon capturing a gold medal. The effervescent smile on her face while wearing this gold medal embodies her hard work, devotion, consistency, and dedication to the sport, which will inspire a
Jyothi topped the podium with a meet-record time of 12.89 seconds. She also crossed the Asian Championships qualifying standard of 13.63 seconds set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI).
Amlan Borgohain, in particular, will have happy memories of the tournament, having broken the men's 200m national record in the last edition. Jyothi Yarraji, the national record holder in the 100m hurdles event, will also compete in the 200m event.
Chanu has only one medal at the Asian Championships which came at the 2020 edition held in Tashkent. She claimed a bronze medal for a total lift of 205kg, including the world record clean and jerk of 119kg.
Experienced campaigner and 2022 Asian Championships bronze medallist Hussamuddin will fight against Alen Rustemovski of Macedonia on Monday in the first round, while Varinder Singh will go up against Mujibillo Tursunov of Uzbekistan, as per a press release from the Boxing Federation of India
Six-time Asian Championships medallist Shiva Thapa and 2019 Asian Championships silver medallist Deepak Bhoria will headline the Indian squad for the showpiece event, as per a press release from the Boxing Federation of India (BFI).
The dynamic 23-year-old pugilist from Haryana hardly put a foot wrong in her commanding 5-0 win against the 2022 Asian Championships bronze medallist Zhazira Urakbayeva of Kazakhstan in the Last-16 contest