Sunday will be second qualification round to earn spot for 2027 World Athletics Championships in Beijing
The Indian quartet of Dharamveer Choudhary, Rajesh Ramesh, Vishal TK and Manu TS clocked an impressive time of 3:00.32 seconds, a season best, in the men’s 4x400m to finish fourth in their heat 3 on day-one of World Athletics Relays at Gaborone’s National Stadium on Saturday.
Top two teams in each heat advanced to the final round on Sunday and earned an automatic spot for the World Athletics Championships 2027 in Beijing.
Sunday will be the second qualifying round. The Indian men’s 4x400m that finished overall 12th in the field today and has another chance to qualify for the Worlds tomorrow.
India’s season best time of 3:01.43 in 4x400m relay was clocked earlier this season in Chandigarh. The national record of 2:59.05 was set at the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships in Hungary.
The national women’s 4x100m team of Tamanna, Nithya Gandhe, Sudeshna S and Sneha SS with a time of 43.97 seconds, a season best, finished fifth in heat 1. The Indian women’s team finished overall 13th.
The men’s 4x100m squad also clocked a season best time of 39.07 seconds. The members were Harsh Raut, Ragul Kumar, Animesh Kujur and Gurindervir Singh.
The 4x400m mixed relay team of Theerthesh P Shetty, Ansa Babu, Amoj Jacob, Rashdeep Kaur finished sixth in heat 1. The Indian team clocked 3:16.00 seconds, season best.
The 4x100m mixed relay team didn’t finish the race in the first qualification round today.
EOM
