Nethra Kumanan. File
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Nethra Kumanan, who secured India’s second Paris Olympics quota in crusing on April 28 stated that she is “very excited” to represent India again.
Speaking to the media, Nethra stated: “I have been trying to work very hard since the last Olympics to improve as much as possible and work as hard as I can to qualify again this year. It’s a real feeling and I’m very excited to represent India again”.
Nethra Kumanan secures Paris quota in Sailing
Nethra Kumanan on April 26 secured India’s second Paris Olympics quota in crusing, claiming it below the Emerging Nations Program banner on the Last Chance Regatta, an Olympic qualifier, in Hyeres, France.
Nethra, who has competed in the Tokyo Games three years in the past, was competing in the ladies’s dinghy (ILCA 6).
Nethra managed 67 internet factors to end fifth on the general leaderboard. However, she secured the Olympic quota as the highest performer amongst sailors from the Emerging Nations Program (ENP) who had not but obtained a quota.
World Sailing, the world governing physique for the game, goals to assist athletes from much less well-known crusing nations make an influence on the high degree by way of its ENP programme.
The high three sailors first secured the Olympic quotas in the ladies’s dinghy — Romania’s Ebru Bolat (36 internet factors), Marilena Makri of Cyprus (37 internet factors) and Slovenia’s Lin Pletikos (54 internet factors).
Six-time Olympian Tatiana Drozdovskaya (59 internet factors), competing as a person impartial athlete, got here fourth and missed out. The Last Chance Regatta is the ultimate qualifying occasion in crusing for the Paris 2024 Olympics.