India’s blended 4×400 relay staff set a nationwide file whereas successful the gold medal on the inaugural version of Asian Relay Championships on Monday however missed the goal of coming into the Paris Olympics qualification bracket. The quartet of Muhammed Ajmal, Jyothika Sri Dandi, Amoj Jacob and Subha Venkatesan clocked 3 minutes 14.12 seconds to win the race. The sooner nationwide file of three:14.34 was clocked by the Indian staff whereas successful silver medal on the Hangzhou Asian Video games final 12 months. India was main in all of the 4 legs of the relay race. Sri Lanka completed second with a time of three:17.00 whereas Vietnam was third with 3:18.45.

Monday’s timing will put India within the twenty first place — from earlier twenty third — within the Highway to Paris record of World Athletics whereas the purpose was to be both within the fifteenth or sixteenth spot.

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The Indian Quartet completed in 3:14.12 which is healthier than 3:14.34

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India, thus, is in a troublesome place to make the Olympics reduce as solely sixteen groups will compete within the blended 4x400m relay occasion in Paris.

Fourteen blended 4x400m groups have already robotically certified for Paris Olympics throughout the World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas earlier this month, and solely two spots had been left to be stuffed on the idea of finest timings of nations until the qualification deadline of June 30.

Czech Republic (3:11.98) and Italy (3:13.56) are at the moment within the fifteenth and sixteenth spot within the Highway to Paris record, beneath the highest 14 groups which have booked Paris ticket throughout the World Athletics Relays in Bahamas, the place India had did not make the grade.

India’s goal right here on Monday was to not less than higher 3:13.56 and sit on the sixteenth spot, however the nation failed to take action.

Athletics Federation of India (AFI) could contemplate sending the blended 4x400m relay staff in worldwide competitions earlier than the June 30 deadline.

India will compete within the males’s and ladies’s 4x400m relay races on Day 2 on Tuesday.

In Bahamas, the Indian blended 4x400m relay quartet of Rajesh Ramesh, Rupal Chaudhary, Avinash Krishna Kumar and Jyothika Sri Dandi ran a poor race and did not make the Paris reduce within the warmth race of first spherical qualifiers.

The Indian staff pulled out of the second spherical qualifiers warmth race after Ramesh obtained injured whereas operating the lads’s 4x400m relay race.

Later, each the lads’s and ladies’s 4x400m relay groups made the Paris reduce throughout the second spherical qualification warmth race.