The selection committee which met under the chairmanship of Olympian GS Randhawa at AFI office in New Delhi today also asked shot putter Naveen Chikara to attempt one more trial on Monday, August 20, 2018.Naveen was supposed to travel to Jakarta late on Friday night but is now been asked to stay back and appear for trial on Monday.
“Annu Rani and Monika Chaudhary were not selected as their performance in the confirmatory trials was not found to be satisfactory by the selection committee,” said CK Valson, AFI secretary.
Meanwhile, from 400m group currently camping in Czech Republic, AnuRaghvan clocked 57.43m in 400m hurdles confirmatory trials and booked a berth for Asian Games. The AFI qualifying guideline for 400m hurdles was 57.52s. SaritabenGaikwad, who is already a part of the Indian 4x400m women’s relay team, also gave a trial for 400m hurdles and clocked 57.04s.
All the other athletes who cleared the confirmatory trials are high jumperChetan B and 50km race walker Sandeep Kumar among men and long jumpers NeenaPintoo andNayana James, discus thrower Sandeep Kumari, JaunaMurmuin 400m hurdles and Nirmala in 400m.
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