Tokyo 2020: Here’s the full list of Indian track and field athletes qualified for Olympic Games

India’s track and field athletes were confirmed to have earned 18 quota places for the Tokyo Olympic Games (accounting for 15 individual events and two relay teams), through the combination of meeting automatic qualification marks and world rankings during the stipulated period.

Avinash Sable (men’s 3000m steeplechase), Tajinderpal Singh Toor (men’s shot put), Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh (men’s javelin throw), M Sreeshankar (men’s long jump), Kamalpreet Kaur and Seema Punia (women’s discus throw) and race walkers KT Irfan, Sandeep Kumar and Rahul Rohila (men) and Bhawna Jat and Priyanka Goswami (women), qualified for the Olympic Games through the automatic benchmarks. The mixed 4x400m relay team qualified by reaching the final of the World Championships in 2019.

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The men’s 4x400m relay team, MP Jabir (men’s 400m Hurdles), Dutee Chand (women’s 100m and 200m), Annu Rani (women’s Javelin Throw) made it on the strength of their world ranking.

Dutee was 41st and 50th respectively in the list of 56 athletes to compete in both the 100m and 200m events, while Rani was at 18th (out of 32) and Jabir at 32nd (out of 40).

The closest miss was that of the women’s 4x400m relay…

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