Geetha, Najeeb included in athletics squad
New Delhi, Nov. 9: All the Commonwealth Games medallists, except for woman discus thrower Seema Antil, were on Tuesday named in India’s 69-strong athletics squad for the Asian Games starting in Guangzhou, China from November 12.
The Athletics Federation of India decided to send a big squad, the largest among 36 disciplines India will take part, following the unprecedented success in the Commonwealth Games here last month.
National record holder Antil, who had won a bronze in the CWG, missed out as a country can name only two athletes in an event.
Krishna Poonia and Harwant Kaur, who had won gold and silver respectively in a clean sweep in the women’s discus throw event in the CWG, were in the China-bound squad.
Besides Poonia, the only Indian woman athlete to win an individual gold in the Commonwealth Games, and Kaur, the women’s 4X400m quartet of Sini Jose, AC Ashwini, Manjeet Kaur and Mandeep Kaur, who won gold in the CWG, are also in the Asian Games squad. The squad has the CWG-bronze winning women’s 4x100m relay team of Geetha Satti, Srabani Nanda, P.K. Priya and H.M. Jyothi. It also has CWG bronze-winning men’s 4x100m relay quartet of R. Molla, Krishnakumar Rane, Shammer Mon and Abdul Najeeb Qureshi.
Asian leader in women’s 800m race Tintu Luka is also in the squad.
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