Dhanalakshmi wins 100m sprint, Dutee fourth; injured Hima on verge of lacking Olympics

Tamil Nadu’s S Dhanalakshmi received the 100m sprint on the National Inter-State Championships whereas nationwide report holder Dutee Chand completed fourth on a day when one other star sprinter Hima Das didn’t begin after injuring herself within the warmth races, placing her unsure for the Tokyo Olympics.
All the opponents in ladies’s 100m ultimate race returned with mediocre timings at the same time as Dhanalakshmi emerged because the quickest girl of the event, clocking 11.52 seconds, forward of Sri Lanka’s Amasha de Silva (11.59) and Archana Suseendran (11.60) of Tamil Nadu.
Dutee, who had clocked 11.17 seconds within the Indian Grand Prix 4 earlier this week on the identical NIS tracks to shatter her personal nationwide report, completed fourth with a time of 11.62. She was seen having some discomfort whereas crossing the ending line.
Dutee although is prone to qualify for the Olympics on the premise of world rankings as she is sitting fairly at forty first spot within the Road to Tokyo listing. Fifty-six athletes will compete within the Tokyo Olympics ladies’s 100m race.
Hima, who has had a decrease again damage drawback for a very long time, didn’t begin within the ultimate after sustaining a muscle pull in the course of the 100m heats within the morning session. The extent of her damage couldn’t be ascertained formally.
But it’s learnt that the Assam athlete is very unlikely to run the 200m race scheduled on Sunday in addition to the ladies’s 4x100m relay ultimate on June 29. She had run her private better of 20.88 seconds in 200m on the IGP 4 however missed the automated qualification mark of 20.80 seconds.
Hima’s damage can be a giant blow to 4x100m ladies’s relay staff’s qualification bid for the Tokyo Games as she is a crucial member of the quartet, additionally comprising Dutee, Dhanalakshmi and Archana.
Gurindervir Singh of Punjab emerged because the quickest man within the championships as he received the 100m ultimate with a time of 10.27 seconds, a mere one-hundreth of a second under the nationwide report of 10.26 which stands within the identify of Odisha’s Amiya Kumar Mallick, who completed third (10.49) on Saturday.
Love Preet Singh (10.47), additionally from Punjab, took the silver. The Olympic qualifying mark in males’s 100m is 10.05 seconds.
National report holder excessive jumper Tejaswin Shankar’s bid for an Olympic quota led to disappointment as he may clear solely 2.20m although he received the gold on the Punjabi Univerisity grounds.
He had flown down from the United States, the place he has been learning on the Kansas State University, for a ultimate try at making the Olympics, for which the qualifying mark is 2.33m.