Tokyo [Japan], September 13 (ANI): India’s marketing campaign at World Athletics Championships kickstarted on Saturday in 35 km race stroll occasion, with Priyanka Goswami registering a twenty fourth place end in ladies’s whereas Sandeep Kumar ending twenty third in males’s occasion.
Ram Baboo, nonetheless, confronted disqualification. The World Championships are being held in Tokyo from Thursday and can run until September 21, as per Olympics.com. This is the twentieth version of the competitors.
The Indian contingent contains a whole of 19 gamers, together with 14 males and 5 ladies gamers, who will probably be vying for medals in 15 totally different occasions, 11 for males and 4 for girls.
The present javelin throw world champion Neeraj Chopra, who grew to become the first-ever Indian to land a gold on the world meet, is the headliner within the staff, alongside lengthy soar star Murali Sreeshankar, ladies’s javelin nationwide record-holder Annu Rani and rising star Animesh Kujur, who is about to turn into the primary Indian sprinter to compete on the World Championships.
Also, triple jumper Praveen Chitravel, 3000m steeplechase runner Parul Chaudhary and Abdulla Aboobacker are among the many different key names within the squad. Gulveer Singh and Pooja will probably be doubling up in two occasions every as nicely.
Heading into the meet, Indian athletes have received three World Championship medals, Anju Bobby George’s lengthy soar bronze at Paris 2003, Neeraj Chopra’s javelin silver at Oregon 2022 and his monumental gold at Budapest 2023.
Over 2,000 athletes throughout 200 nations are aiming for a medal on the championships, with a large 147 medals on the road in 49 totally different occasions. (ANI)