File photograph of Tajinderpal Singh Toor.
| Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar
Shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor will try to make a mark within the Indian Grand Prix observe and discipline competitors at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on April 30.
Tajinderpal will hope to breach the Paris Olympics qualification customary of 21.50m. This shouldn’t be past the attain of the Services athlete, whose private finest 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 12 months.
Hima and 2016 Rio Olympian Srabani Nanda are among the many eight opponents within the girls’s 200m occasion.
Eldhose Paul, who recorded a wind-assisted 17.03m leap to win the boys’s triple leap gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Games, can be in motion. The Olympic qualification mark, set at 17.22m, is perhaps a bridge too far.
2023 Asian Athletics Championships silver medallist Shaili Singh and Kerala’s Nayana James battle for the ladies’s lengthy leap crown. In the third version of the Indian Open Jumps competitors held right here lately, Nayana edged out Shaili to seize gold.
