New Delhi: Triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary,
sprinter Dharambir Singh and Jinson Johnson are the latest addition to the list
of athletes who have qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Maheshwary and Dharambir made national record
in their respective events at Indian Grand Prix while Johnson made a cut
for the men’s 800m event after clocking 1:45.98.
Maheshwary’s leap of 17.30 m over took
previous best of Arpinder Singh who held a record of 17.17 m leap while
Dharambir’s timing of 20.45s in the 200m came out to be better than that of his
own timing of 20.66s.
The qualification mark for men’s 200m for the
Rio Olympics was set at 20.50s. For men’s triple jump, it was 16.85m. The
qualification standard for the 800m was 1:46.00s.
Dharambir Singh made him the first Indian
male athlete to qualify for the 200m event at the Olympics in 36 years.
The 2016 Rio Olympics, which is the 31st
edition of the modern Olympics, will take place from August 5 to August 21,
2016. More than 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs),
including first time entrants Kosovo and South Sudan, are scheduled to take
part. Rio will become the first South American city to host the Summer
Olympics. These will be the first games to be held in a Portuguese-speaking
country.
The Indian Olympic Association going to send
the nation's largest ever delegation (thus far 120 athletes; 37 larger than
their previous record of 83 delegates in 2012) in Summer Olympic history.
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