Last Updated: February 28, 2024, 17:13 IST
Gold medallist India’s Parul Chaudhary poses for images in the course of the presentation ceremony of the ladies’s 5000m athletics occasion on the nineteenth Asian Games. (PTI Photo)
Parul Chaudhary shot into limelight with a gold within the 5000m and a silver in 3000m steeplechase occasions of the Hangzhou Asian Games final 12 months.
Athletics Federation of India vice-president Anju Bobby George on Wednesday stated Asian Games gold-profitable steeplechase runner Parul Chaudhary is among the many ones to be careful for at this 12 months’s Paris Olympics the place she anticipating a couple of medal in javelin throw.
So far, 9 Indian monitor-and-discipline athletes have certified for the Games in July-August with defending gold-medallist Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Jena making the lower in javelin throw.
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Chaudhary shot into limelight with a gold within the 5000m and a silver in 3000m steeplechase occasions of the Hangzhou Asian Games final 12 months. The 28-12 months-outdated is the primary Indian to clock lower than 9 minutes within the 3000m girls’s steeplechase.
“A bunch of athletes are performing really well in the international arena from athletics. We are aiming for three (medals) in javelin,” she advised PTI on the sidelines of Bharat Sports Science Conclave in New Delhi on Wednesday.
“Then we have long jumpers, we have triple jumpers, steeplechase runner Parul Chaudhary is among the ones to watch out for but a lot cannot be predicted about the Olympics,” she added.
A legend in her personal proper, who received a trailblazing world championship bronze in lengthy soar, George stated she is mighty happy with how know-how has been integrated to enhance coaching of athletes.
“A game-changer I can say, nothing was like this in our time, the changes that are happening in Indian sports, and sports science is playing a big role in every athlete’s career.
“Every athlete is challenging his body, he needs recovery and treatment, and it was not there in India (in the past), but now we are aiming for the Olympics. We are talking about sports science, doping issues, recovery and training, so it is a game changer I can say,” she stated.
The different Indian athletes to have certified for the Paris Games thus far are Avinash Sable (males’s 3000m steeplechase), Akashdeep Singh, Vikas Singh and Paramjeet Singh Bisht (males’s 20km stroll), Priyanka Goswami (girls’s 20km stroll), and Murali Sreeshankar (males’s lengthy soar).
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
