The ladies’s 4×400 metres relay group runs the danger of lacking the Tokyo Olympics as it’s too near the elimination zone.
Only the highest 16 groups — as on the July 1 qualification deadline — are eligible to compete within the Tokyo Olympics, in response to World Athletics. The Indian relay group’s rating is 15.
“The Indian group final participated within the 2019 World Athletics Championships the place they clocked 3 minutes 29.42 seconds. However, by skipping the World Relays in Poland on May 1 and a pair of, the nationwide squad missed probability to enhance its world rating to remain out of the elimination zone,” a national team coach told IANS.
The top eight teams in the World Relays in Poland got automatic berths to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. Cuba won gold in the women’s 4x400m relay with a time of 3 minutes 28.41 seconds.
Poland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Belgium and France are the seven other teams who got tickets to Japan.
The top eight teams from the Doha 2019 World Championships also got direct entry to the Olympics. If there are teams that finished among top eight in both Poland and Doha, World Athletics will allocate quota to the team next in the rankings.
“We have to participate in one or two relay competitions in May or June to stay within the top 16. Otherwise, we will be out of Olympics,” the athletics coach added.
The present world rating of the boys’s 4x400m relay group is 14. This relies on the efficiency of 3 minutes 02.59 seconds the Indian group clocked in July 2019 in Turkey.
The nationwide ladies’s 4x100m relay group’s present world rating is 22.
The nationwide combined 4x400m relay group has acquired direct entry for Tokyo Olympics by advantage of being in high eight on the 2019 Doha World Championships.
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