Annu Rani after successful the javelin throw gold at the Federation Cup, her season-opener, in Ranchi on Tuesday. Photo: Stan Rayan
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“Please help me… I need to get back to Germany and to Europe for competitions as soon as possible.”
This is National record-holder Annu Rani speaking, and the woman who put Indian girls’s javelin throw on the world map by coming into the finals at the final two World Championships could be very desperate.
Rani, who trains below prime coach Werner Daniels at Offenburg the place males’s World No. 1 Johannes Vetter additionally trains, is eager to get again to Germany instantly to proceed her coaching and be in prime form for the World Championships in Budapest in August.
She additionally has to rush and compete in as many high quality occasions as attainable to decide up essential World rating factors that may assist her go to Hungary via the world rankings route. And there’s not a lot time left, the qualification doorways for Budapest shut on July 30.
But her visa doesn’t enable her to get again to Germany or Europe instantly.
“I have a multiple Schengen visa that allows me to stay a maximum of three months in Germany and then come back to India and stay here for 90 days. Only after that, I can go back to Germany,” mentioned Rani, who returned to India few weeks in the past after the expiry of her 90-day interval in Germany, in a chat with The Hindu on Wednesday.
“Now, I can go to Germany only after three months That’s not good because my training will be disturbed. So I want a long-term residence permit or a visa that will allow me to stay there till the Paris Olympics. The SAI and the Athletics Federation of India are trying but there has not been any progress so far. I hope the MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) helps me in this.”
Being the present World No. 10, Rani — who opened her season with the Federation Cup gold right here on Tuesday — has acquired invites to compete in a few of the world’s greatest meets.
“I have an invitation for the Paris Diamond League on June 9. And now, all good competitions are going on in Germany and in Europe. I have no visa; how can I go there?” requested Rani, final yr’s Commonwealth Games bronze medallist and the 2019 Asian championship silver medallist (private greatest 63.82m) who goals to throw 65m at the Budapest Worlds.
