It has relatively been a historic day for India and Indian athletes on the World Athletics Championship. Javelin throwers Neeraj Chopra and Rohit Yadav have been the primary ones to qualify for the finals that will probably be performed on Sunday. Alternatively, one other athlete has a scripted historical past for India. Athlete Eldhose Paul has change into the primary Indian man to qualify for the 12-athlete remaining after ending twelfth total.
Paul who was positioned in Group A registered his private greatest leap of 16.99m on the Federation Cup earlier this 12 months. Other than Paul, the 2 different Indians who’re part of this contest are Praveen Chithravel, in Group A, and Abdulla Aboobacker in Group B however they could not make it via to the finals.
Chitravel registered the perfect leap of 16.49m and completed within the seventeenth spot and then again, Abdulla Aboobacker managed 16.45m and completed within the nineteenth spot out of the 28 rivals. It may be mentioned that each these athletes underperformed as Chithravel has a private better of 17.18m which he attained on the Nationwide Inter State Senior Athletics Championships in Chennai and Abdulla Aboobacker’s greatest is 17.19m which he registered on the Indian Grand Prix in Bhubaneswar.
The winner of the Tokyo Olympics 2021 Pedro Pichardo topped the qualification chart as he completed with an try of 17.16m try. The qualifying mark for triple leap finals was set at 17.05m or no less than 12 greatest performers.