Athletics federation announces 92-member squad for CWG

NEW DELHI - 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, 4×100m: 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, 4×400m: 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, 4×100m: 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, 4×400m: 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