Last chance to qualify for Olympics for 7 Indian athletes

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 2:11 AM IST

In Stockholm, Sinimol Paulose and Sajeesh Joseph will be competing in the women's 1500m and men's 800m respectively later tonight at the Folksam Sollentuna Grand Prix.

For Sinimol, the qualifying time is 4:08 minutes while Joseph will have to complete his race in 1:46.30 minutes in order to board the flight to London.

In Germany tomorrow, Sudha Singh will be fighting to clinch a place in the women's 3000m Steeplechase with a qualifying time of 9 min 43 seconds.

On Saturday, Om Prakash Singh will be competing Madrid to for a berth in the men's shot put event. He will have to hurl the shot at distance of 20.75m. Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut will be in Italy vying for a berth in women's 10000m event. There qualifying time will be 31 min 45 seconds.

  

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First Published: Jul 05 2012 | 9:35 PM IST

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