Marseille [France], July 18 (ANI): The first check occasion for subsequent yr’s Paris 2024 Olympics, a global crusing competitors in Marseille, was held on the Roucas Blanc Marina from July 9 to July 16.
Some of the highest sailors from world wide competed on the occasion within the south of France.
Test occasions are sporting competitions held previous to the Olympic Games as gown rehearsals for the primary occasion. Besides giving athletes some much-needed aggressive follow, check occasions additionally assist organisers check their readiness and fine-tune logistical and different elements for the upcoming Summer Games.
The entry listing for the occasion additionally included eight Indian sailors – Vishnu Saravanan (males’s dinghy), Nethra Kumanan (girls’s dinghy), KC Ganapathy/Varun Thakkar (males’s skiff), Preethi Kongara/Sudhanshu Shekhar (blended dinghy) and Siddheshwar Doiphode/Ramya Saravanan (blended multihull).
Among the eight, 4 – Vishnu Saravanan, Nethra Kumanan, KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar – represented India on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Nethra Kumanan, who turned the primary Indian lady to qualify instantly for an Olympic crusing occasion in Tokyo, completed twenty second amongst 38 contestants within the girls’s dinghy competitors at Marseille. She tallied 170 internet factors.
Dutchwoman Marit Bouwmeester, a Rio 2016 Olympic champion, topped the sphere with 44 internet factors. In crusing, decrease internet factors are higher.
Vishnu Saravanan, an under-21 world championships bronze medallist, in the meantime, got here in thirty second within the males’s dinghy competitors with 237 internet factors. Australia’s Matthew Wearn, the reigning Olympic champion, topped the 42-man occasion.
The group of KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar positioned twenty sixth amongst 29 groups within the males’s skiff occasion with a internet complete of 247.
Preethi Kongara and Sudhanshu Shekhar completed backside in a 17-team blended dinghy area. The blended multihull competitors additionally noticed Siddheshwar Doiphode and Ramya Saravanan, Vishnu’s sister, end final amongst 18 competing groups. (ANI)