Second leg runner Rajesh Ramesh pulled out as a result of cramps because the Indian males’s 4x400m crew failed to complete its warmth race on the World Athletics Relays in Nassau on Could 5, throughout spherical considered one of Paris Olympics {qualifications}. File
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Second leg runner Rajesh Ramesh pulled out as a result of cramps because the Indian males’s 4x400m crew failed to complete its warmth race on the World Athletics Relays in Nassau on Could 5, throughout spherical considered one of Paris Olympics {qualifications}.
The Indian quartet of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Rajesh Ramesh, Muhammed Ajmal and Amoj Jacob hoped to e book a Paris ticket with a top-two end in warmth quantity 4, however in a utter heartbreak, Ramesh left the race halfway whereas clutching his left leg. Anas had already run the primary leg.
“The boys’s 4x400m relay crew had a superb begin. Muhammad Anas clocked 45.93 seconds within the first leg, however the second runner — Rajesh Ramesh — fell down as a result of cramps in leg muscle mass on the first bend,” Athletics Federation of India (AFI) mentioned in an announcement.
Ramesh had run the blended 4x400m race three hours earlier than the boys’s occasion.
India can have one other probability on Could 6 throughout spherical two of Olympics {qualifications} the place all the opposite groups which completed exterior top-two of their respective heats on Sunday will attempt their luck for one more shot on the Paris Video games. The groups are anticipated to be divided into three heats and high two from every of them will e book Paris ticket.
The identical quartet had set an Asian file of two minutes and 59.05 seconds on the 2023 Budapest World Championships. India had didn’t get previous the warmth spherical within the Tokyo Olympics.
India additionally didn’t make the Paris Olympics reduce in ladies’s 4x400m and blended 4x400m relays on the primary day of {qualifications}. Each the Indian groups of blended 4x400m and girls’s 4x400m must watch for Monday’s spherical two of Olympics {qualifications}.
Within the blended 4x400m occasion, the Indian quartet of Rajesh Ramesh, Rupal Chaudhary, Avinash Krishna Kumar and Jyothika Sri Dandi ran a poor race to complete sixth in warmth quantity two with a time of three minutes and 20.36 seconds.
Later, the Indian quartet of Vithya Ramraj, M R Poovamma, Jyothika Sri Dandi and Subha Venkatesan completed fifth in warmth primary with a time of three minutes and 29.74 seconds.
The highest two groups in every of the 4 warmth races right here qualify for the Paris Olympics to be held from July 16 to August 11. The remaining groups in all of the heats will compete once more on Monday in one other qualification spherical for one more six Paris Olympics spots.
The format is identical for all of the 5 relay races — males’s and girls’s 4x100m, males’s and girls’s 4x400m and blended 4x400m — being held right here.