The KIYG dates come very near the Junior Federation Cup and Inter-State Nationals
The KIYG dates come very near the Junior Federation Cup and Inter-State Nationals
Long jumper Shaili Singh and quartermiler Priya H. Mohan, each under-20 World championship medallists, will skip the Khelo India Youth Games at Panchkula in Haryana because the dates of the athletics occasions fall very shut to 2 main championships.
Originally scheduled in November-December final 12 months, the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) have been postponed thrice and can now be held from June 4 to 13 with athletics working from June 7 to 9.
But the KIYG athletics dates fall between the Junior Federation Cup at Nandiad (Gujarat, June 2-4) and the Inter-State Nationals in Chennai (June 10-14), each essential occasions because the World championships (Oregon, USA), under-20 Worlds (Cali, Colombia) and the Commonwealth Games (Birmingham, England) are lined up in July and August this 12 months.
Shaili Singh.
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World rating factors
Shaili (silver) and Priya (4x400m blended relay bronze & fourth in particular person 400m) – each prime seeds within the KIYG rankings – shall be competing in each the Junior Federation Cup and the Inter-State to choose up treasured World rating factors that would fetch them berths within the senior Worlds via the World rankings route and therefore have determined to offer the KIYG a miss.
Priya is presently 56th within the ladies’s 400m within the World Athletics’ Road to Oregon rankings and with simply 48 berths accessible for the senior Worlds, she shall be going all out in her subsequent few meets to climb the rankings ladder.
Shaili, who competed in only one meet this 12 months – the current Grand Prix in Bhubaneswar the place she did 6.27m – after recovering from a again harm and COVID, is but to enter the Oregon rankings so might be determined to seize essential factors.
Chance of harm
And when one does three competitions in 13 days, travelling hundreds of miles from Nandiad to Panchkula after which to Chennai with none break, there’s a probability of the athlete getting injured. So, the 2 younger stars have determined to play it protected.
“It’s quite disappointing and we are sad about it. We can’t take any risk in this important year,” Robert Bobby George, Shaili’s coach, informed The Hindu from Bengaluru.
“No. Can’t do (KIYG)… dates are clashing. The inter-State is the final qualification for the senior Worlds,” mentioned Priya’s coach Arjun Ajay.
Incidentally, each Priya and Shaili have already certified for the Junior Worlds.
Source: www.thehindu.com
