2024-05-23 06:22:37
Bhubaneswar: Paris Olympics 2024: List of Indian athletes going to Paris released, name of this national record holder missing – Indian Aabha Khatua's name missing from IOA releases official athletes list for Paris Olympics
– 2024-07-18 10:48:33″>Abha Khatua set a nationwide file in ladies’s shot put with a distance of 18.41 meters on the second day of the Nationwide Federation Cup Athletics Competitors right here on Monday. Nonetheless, Abha couldn’t get a quota for the Paris Olympics. The Olympic qualification mark is eighteen.80 meters. Abha, representing Maharashtra, was the joint file holder of 18.06 meters with Manpreet Kaur earlier than this competitors. Nonetheless, she set a brand new nationwide file with a throw of 18.41 meters in her fifth try on the Kalinga Stadium right here. Her try was a lot lower than the Olympic qualifying degree of 18.80 meters.
The time for Olympic qualification ends on June 30. Kiran Baliyan of Uttar Pradesh (16.54 metres) and Srishti Vij of Delhi (15.86 metres) stood second and third respectively. Odisha’s Animesh Kujur ran a formidable 20.62 seconds within the males’s 200m ultimate. That is one-tenth of a second lower than Amlan Borgohain’s two-year-old nationwide file of 20.52 seconds.
Abha’s childhood was spent in poverty
Hailing from a poor household, 28-year-old Abha took up athletics in Class VII. Born to a farmer father in Khurshi village close to Narayangarh city in West Midnapore district of West Bengal, Khatua had participated in a number of athletics occasions earlier than taking over shot put 4 years in the past. She initially competed in 100m, 200m, 400m, lengthy leap and javelin throw. She additionally participated in heptathlon in 2017-18. After not getting beneficial ends in these occasions, she began attempting her hand at shot put in late 2018 and joined the nationwide camp in Patiala in 2019. The yr 2021 was extraordinarily disappointing for her as she suffered from Covid-19, chikungunya and excessive uric acid together with an damage to her proper elbow. She missed out on a spot within the Asian Video games by ending third (16.39m) on the Nationwide Inter-State Championships in Bhubaneswar. Abha later gained a silver medal on the Asian Championships in Thailand in July, equalling Manpreet Kaur’s nationwide file.