New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) Tuesday announced a 92-member squad for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games.
The Indian athletes will compete in 45 of the 46 events during the Games. India will not be participating in the women’s pole-vault as it is still far from matching the international standards.
The final team for men and women 20km event and relay will be decided later and it will take the number of athletes to 142. The selection of athletes for all the four relays will take place after Sep 15.
‘As per the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) rules, we can select the entries for the relay from our 92-man squad, so the entries will be filled for everyone,’ AFI officiating officer Ravinder Chaudhry said.
‘Also, according to IAAF we can choose the team 15 days before the Games, so we have kept more players and will select the final team after assessing their performance later.’
Chaudhry said they are expecting more medals from women athletes in the October Games.
‘Women athletes have a better chance than their men counterparts. We are expecting good performance from women in discuss throw, 4x 400m relay, triple jump, 800m and 10,000m event while from men in shot-put, discuss and triple jump,’ he said.
Chaudhry said that legendry athlete P.T. Usha’s student Tintu Luka, who ran her personal best of 2:00.79 to finish eighth in the 800m race in the final leg of the Diamond League series in Brussels, Belgium, will be one of the stars to look out for.
In the men’s 800 metres, Pankaj Dimri will the one to look out for, he said.
The teams for Asian Games will be finalised on the basis of their performance in Commonwealth Games.
Team (men):
100m, 4x100m: Abdul Najib Qureshi, B.G. Nagaraj, Krishna Kumar Rane, Hemant Kirulkar Rahamattulla Molla, Shameer mon, Ritesh Anand, Manikandaraj, S. Sathya
200m: Dharambir Haryana, Abdul Najib Qureshi,
400m, 4x400m: Kunhi Mohammad, Vinay Chaudhry, J. Premanand, Harpreet Singh, V.B. Bineesh, Jithin Paul, Bibin Mathew , S.K. Mortaja,
800m: Pankaj Dimri, P. Francis Sagayaraj, Manjit Singh
1500m: Sandeep Karan Singh, C. Hamza
5000m: Sunil Singh, Sandeep Batham
10,000m: Sunil Singh
110m Hurdles: Siddhanth Thingalaya
400m Hurdles: Joseph Abraham
3000m Steeplechase: Elam Singh, Ramachandran
Marathon: Bining L.
Shotput: Om Prakash, Sourav Vij
Discus: Vikas Gowda
Javelin: Kashi Nath Karnataka, Samareet Singh
Hammer: Chandrodaya Narayan
Long Jump: Maha Singh, Ankit Sharma, Hari Krishnan M
Triple Jump: Renjith Maheshwari, Amarjit Singh
High Jump: Nikhil Chitrasau, Hari Shanker Roy
Pole Vault: Gajanan Upadhyay
Decathlon: Bhartinder Singh, P.J. Vinod
Team (women):
100m, 4x100m: S. Geetha, H.M. Jyothi, P.K. Priya. Sarbani Nanda, Rebecca Jose, Nirupama Sunderraj, Arjina Khatun, Ch Shanthi
200m: H.M. Jyothi, S. Geetha
400m, 4x400m: Mandeep Kaur, Jaunu Murmu, Ashwini AC, Sini Jose, Tiana Mary Thomas, Chitra K. Soman, Mridula K, MR Poovamma, Priyanka Panwar, Manjit Kaur
800m: Tintu Luka, Sinimol Paulose
1500m: Shushma Devi Haryana, Jhuma Khatun West Bengal, O.P. Jaisha
5000m: Kavita Raut, Preeja Sreedharan Kerala, Laita Babar
10000m: Preeja Sreedharan, Kavita Raut
100m Hurdle: G. Gayathry
400m Hurdle: Jauna Murmu, Ashwani AC Karnataka
3000m Steeplechase: O.P. Jaisha, Sudha Singh, Priyanka Patel
Marathon: Sukanya Mall Singh
Discus: Krishna Poonia, Harwant Kaur, Seema Antil
Shotput: Manpreet Kaur
Javelin: Saraswathi S.
Hammer: Hardeep Kaur
Long Jump: Mayookha Johny, Prajusha MA, Reshmi Bose
Triple Jump: Mayookha Johny, Prajusha MA, G. Gayathri
High Jump: Kavya Muthanna, Sahana Kumari
Heptathlon: Promila Aiyappa, Sushmita Singha Roy, Navpreet Kaur
