India to run 4x400m relay without their two fastest runners

Two of the India’s fastest female 400m runners, Hima Das (51.13sec) and Asian Champion , Nirmala  (51.25 seconds) is not included in the the 4x400m relay team of Asian Games as India had focus on maintaining rules and managing world loads of athletes.

“As announced earlier, the 4x400m relay team will consist of only those athletes who were in the national coaching camps. “ said Adille J Sumariwalla, AFI President.

Nevertheless Hima Das seem to have been dropped to manager her heavy workload as she will be competing in 200M,400M and 4x400m Mix relay while Nirmala has been dropped for not participating at the National training camp.

Despite not having Hima and Nirmala, India will still has three sub 54 runners and a sub 53 seconds runner to compete in the relay. Indian team for Asian Games includes of 23 men and 28 . however athlete who did not take part in the National Coaching camp will be have to perform at the confirmatory trials on 15-16th August to finalize their selection .

The athletes who were exempted in advance from attending the final selection trials such as Neeraj Chopra, Seema Poonia and Tintu Luka will not be attending the confirmatory trials.

Team list-
Women-
100m – Dutee Chand
200m – Hima Das, Dutee Chand
400m- Hima Das, Nirmala (Subject to confirmatory trials)
800m- Tintu Luka (Subject to confirmatory trials)
1500m- PU Chitra, Monika Chaudhary (Subject to confirmatory trials)
5000m- Sanjivani Jadhav, L Surya
10000m- Sanjivani Jadhav, L Surya
400mH- Juana Murmu (Subject to confirmatory trials), Anu Raghvan (Subject to confirmatory trials)
3000m SC- Sudha Singh, Chinta Yadav
Long Jump- Nayana James (Subject to confirmatory trials), Neena Varakkil Pinto (Subject to confirmatory trials)
20km Race Walk- Sowmya B, Khushbir Kaur
Heptathalon- Swapna Barman, Purnima Hembram
Discus Throw- Seema Poonia, Sandeep Kumari (Subject to confirmatory trials)
Hammer Throw- Sarita Singh
Javelin Throw- Annu Rani (Subject to confirmatory trials)
4x400m Relay- MR Poovamma, Saritaben Gaikwad, Sonia Vaishya, Vijayakumari, VK Vismaya, Jisna Matthew

Men
200m- Mohammed Anas
400m- Mohammed Anas, Rajiv Arokia
800m- Jinson Johnson, Manjit Singh
1500m- Jinson Johnson, Manjit Singh
5000m- G Lakshmanan
10000m- G Lakshmanan
400mH- Dharun Ayyasamy, Santosh Kumar
3000m SC- Naveen Kumar Dagar, Shankarlal Swami
High Jump- Chetan B (Subject to confirmatory trials)
Long Jump- Sreeshankar
Triple Jump- Arpinder Singh, Rakesh Babu
Shot put- Tejinder Toor, Naveen Chikara (Subject to confirmatory trials)
Javelin Throw- Neeraj Chopra, Shivpal Singh
20km Race Walk- Manish Singh Rawat, Irfan KT
50km Race Walk- Sandeep Kumar
4x400m Relay- Mohammed Anas, Jeevan KS, Jithu Baby, Kunhu Mohammed, Rajiv Arokia, Santosh Kumar
Mix Relay- Mohammed Anas, Rajiv Arokia, Hima Das, Poovamma.