Patiala: Manjeet Singh, the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games men’s 800 metres champion, and others failed to avail the last chance to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games at the National Inter-State Athletics Championships here on Sunday.
The qualification time was 1:45.20 secs, and the gold medal winner, Krishan Kumar of Haryana, clocked 1:50.12.
Uttarakhand’s teenage runner Anu Kumar clinched the silver medal with a time of 1:51.05 secs while 30-year-old Manjeet finished third with 1:51.44, having failed to generate speed in the last 200m of the race.
In the women’s 800m race, it was a start-to-finish affair for Punjab’s Harmilan Bains. The 22-year-old runner won with a time of 2:02.57 secs, which was slower than the Olympic qualification time of 1:59.50 secs.
Delhi’s Chanda won silver with a time of 2:03.36 while Sri Lanka’s Nimali Liyanaarachchi clocked 2:05.69 to bag the bronze.
The Olympics will be held from July 23 to August 8.
The results (finals):
Men’s:
800m: 1. Krishan Kumar (Haryana) 1:50.15 seconds; 2. Anu Kumar (Uttarakhand) 1:51.05 secs; 3. Manjit Singh (Haryana) 1:51.44 secs
5000m: 1. Kartik Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) 14:42.76 secs; 2. Adesh Yadav (Maharashtra) 14:45.45 secs; 3. Arjun Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) 15:01.21 secs
110m Hurdles: 1. Siddhant Thingalaya (Maharashtra) 14.11 seconds; 2. Mohammed Fais (Kerala) 14.34 secs; 3. Amrinder Singh Aulakh (Punjab) 14.48 secs
Triple Jump: 1. Eldhose Paul (Kerala) 16.58m; 2. Karthik Unnikrishnan (Kerala) 16.54m; 3. Abdulla Aboobacker (Kerala) 16.37m
Discus Throw: 1. Kirpal Singh (Punjab) 58.90m; 2. Harpreet Singh (Punjab) 57.73m; 3. Gagandeep Singh (Punjab) 56.33m
Women’s:
800m: 1. Harmilan Bains (Punjab) 2:02.57 secs; 2. Chanda (Delhi) 2:03.36 secs; 3. Nimali Liyanaarachchi (Sri Lanka) 2:05.69 secs
High Jump: 1. Angel P. Devasia (Kerala) 1.65m; 2. Giji Geroge Stephen (Tamil Nadu) 1.60m
Pole Vault: 1. Baranica Elangoval (Tamil Nadu) 3.90m; 2. Babita Patel (Madhya Pradesh) 3.40m; 3. Rosy Meena Paulraj (Tamil Nadu) 3.30m
Heptathlon: 1. Sonu Kumari (Haryana) 5,004 points (100mH: 15.17; HJ: 1.64m; SP: 11.29m; 200m: 26.80; LJ: 5.53m; JT: 38.56m; 800m: 2:28.64); 2. Kajal (Haryana) 4,740; 3. Madhu (Haryana) 4,357
