AAA selects seven top Indian athletes to represent Asia-Pacific Team

AAA selects seven top Indian athletes to represent Asia-Pacific Team

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The Asian Athletics Association (AAA) has selected seven top Indian athletes to represent Asia-Pacific Team in IAAF Continental Cup, to be held in, Czech Republic. AAA Secretary Maurice R Nicholas stated that the athletes were selected based on top lists rankings of IAAF and their statisticians.

Seven Indian athletes, including star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and sprint sensation Hima Das, will compete in the prestigious IAAF Continental Cup to be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic on September 8-9. The event will have the best athletes across various continents.

Based on current IAAF world rankings, Neeraj (javelin), Muhammed Anas (400m), Jinson Johnson (800m) and Arpinder Singh (triple jump) made it to the AAA list of athletes for Asian-Pacific in men’s category while Hima Das (400m), P.U. Chitra (1500m) and Sudha Singh (3000m Steeplechase) were included in the women’s event.

In his communication to the Athletics Federation of India, AAA Secretary Maurice R Nicholas said as quoted by The Hindu, “The excellent performances of these selected athletes are based on the top lists rankings of IAAF and our statisticians for Asia-Pacific. We are aware that results are rapidly changing in the next few days and if an athlete overtakes the performances of your selected athletes, he or she would be replaced by us. We hope that this will not happen.”

While Neeraj has been training in Finland under national javelin coach Uwe Hohn from Germany, Anas and Hima have been preparing for next month’s Asian Games in the Czech Republic with other athletes under Galina Bukharina.

Both Jinson Johnson and Sudha Singh have also been training in the national camp in Bhutan ahead of the Asian Games. The IAAF Continental Cup was founded in 2010 and has been contested every four years.

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