Chance for shot putter Tajinderpal to make it to Paris Olympics

File photograph of Tajinderpal Singh Toor.
| Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar

Shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor will attempt to make a mark within the Indian Grand Prix observe and subject competitors at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on April 30. 

Tajinderpal will hope to breach the Paris Olympics qualification customary of 21.50m. This isn’t past the attain of the Services athlete, whose private greatest stands at 21.77m. 

The event additionally marks the return of sprinter Hima Das, who was provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for three whereabouts failures final yr. 

Hima and 2016 Rio Olympian Srabani Nanda are among the many eight opponents within the ladies’s 200m occasion. 

Eldhose Paul, who recorded a wind-assisted 17.03m soar to win the boys’s triple soar gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Games, can also be in motion. The Olympic qualification mark, set at 17.22m, is likely to be a bridge too far. 

2023 Asian Athletics Championships silver medallist Shaili Singh and Kerala’s Nayana James combat for the ladies’s lengthy soar crown. In the third version of the Indian Open Jumps competitors held right here lately, Nayana edged out Shaili to seize gold.