Trials to choose Indian Paralympic crew postponed

Subsequent week’s choice trials to pick out the Indian observe and subject crew for the Tokyo Paralympics Video games have been postponed attributable to Covid-19 pandemic, mentioned the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) on Sunday.

“Since we’ve not obtained permission from the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) to conduct nationwide choice trials on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on June 15 and 16, we have now shifted the dates to June 29 and 30,” PCI secretary common Gursharan Singh instructed IANS.

Singh mentioned the deadline to ship the ultimate entries to the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC) is August 1.

“Now we have greater than 70 athletes who’ve achieved minimal qualifying scores (MQS) of their respective occasions and are eligible to compete within the nationwide choice trials. However the IPC will allot 16 to 20 quota locations for the Tokyo Paralympic Video games,” he added.

The Indian crew, mentioned Singh, has potential to win medals within the subject occasions, together with males’s javelin.

“India’s Sumit Antil and Sandeep Chaudhary are two main javelin throwers in males’s F-44 class on the world stage. Antil holds the world document of 66.70 meters whereas Chaudhary has additionally received gold on the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships held in Doha. We count on each javelin throwers to ship the products on the proper time,” he mentioned.