: Tajinder Toor crosses Tokyo 2020 qualification mark in shot put, Dutee Chand misses out by a whisker #IndiaNEWS Shot-putter Tajinder Singh Toor qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with a new national

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Tajinder Toor crosses Tokyo 2020 qualification mark in shot put, Dutee Chand misses out by a whisker #IndiaNEWS
Shot-putter Tajinder Singh Toor qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with a new national record at the Indian Grand Prix 4 in Patiala on a day when the national women’s 4x100m relay team and sprinter Dutee Chand also breached the previous best marks in the country. The athlete from Punjab also shattered the 12-year-old Asian record of 21.13m which was in the name of Sultan Abdulm Al Hebshi of Saudi Arabia since 2009, reported PTI. Sprinter Dutee Chand, discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur and the India 4x400m relay team also set new National Records in the Indian Grand Prix 4 athletics meet at the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports.Chand’s superb sprint, however, was 0.02 seconds off the automatic qualification mark in women’s 100m. The Odisha athlete should still qualify for Tokyo based on rankings. Toor crossed the Olympic Qualification mark with a throw of 21.49m and broke his own National Record. The Olympic Qualifying effort in this event is 21.10m. The previous record, which was also in Toor’s name, stood at 20.92m and was set in 2019. Toor had two attempts that were better than his previous best, Athletics Federation of India tweeted. The mark, when ratified, will also be the new Asian record, according to...Read more

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