India’s javelin throw ace Neeraj Chopra is all set to make his mark on the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition 2024 which can start on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on Sunday. The Olympic gold medallist began his season with a second-place end on the Doha Diamond League on Friday. He will now compete in a home occasion in India for the primary time since successful the gold medal on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
The lineup for javelin on the twenty seventh version of the Federation Cup additionally contains Asian Games silver medallist Kishore Jena. Neeraj will seem on the runway within the javelin throw occasion on May 15.
In the opposite occasions, nationwide file holder Jeswin Aldrin will likely be in motion within the males’s lengthy leap. With the Olympic qualification window approaching its deadline on June 30, Jeswin will likely be aiming to breach the Paris 2024 lengthy leap qualification customary of 8.27m.
Jeswin set the nationwide file at 8.42m on the Indian Open Jumps Competition in March 2023. But since then he has not breached the entry customary for the upcoming Summer Games because the qualification interval started on July 1 final yr. In 2024, he’s but to cross the 8m mark. Murali Sreeshankar breached the qualification mark within the males’s lengthy leap however bought dominated out for the whole season on account of a knee harm.
Two-time Asian Games champion Tajinderpal Singh Toor will likely be eying to defend his gold medal within the males’s shot put occasion. Toor holds the nationwide file of 21.49m within the occasion. He must register a throw of 21.50m to fulfill the quota for Paris.
Amoj Jacob and Muhammad Ajmal, who’re part of the Indian males’s 4x400m relay workforce that secured an Olympic quota on the World Athletics Relays within the Bahamas final week, will function within the males’s 400m race.
Asian Games champion Rajesh Ramesh will even participate within the 400m occasion. Rajesh gained the gold medal in males’s 400m on the Federation Cup 2023 by clocking 45.75s. The Olympic qualification mark is ready at 45s.
Similarly, Jyothika Sri Dandi, MR Poovamma and Subha Venkatesan, a part of the ladies’s 4x400m relay workforce that secured an Olympics quota for India within the Bahamas, will compete within the ladies’s 400m. Asian Games medallist Vithya Ramraj will even compete within the Federation Cup at Bhubaneswar.
In the lads’s triple leap occasion, Abdulla Aboobacker, the reigning Asian champion and a Commonwealth Games silver medallist, will compete towards the nationwide file holder Praveen Chithravel. Aboobacker is the defending champion on the Federation Cup.
Shaili Singh might want to surpass her mentor Anju Bobby George’s nationwide file of 6.83 within the ladies’s lengthy leap to guide her berth within the upcoming Olympics qualification mark (6.86m).
Where to look at the Federation Cup 2024?
The dwell occasions of the 2024 Federation Cup will likely be out there to stream on-line on the official YouTube channel of Athletic Federation of India
