Athletics Federation of India releases qualification marks for Asian Games 2023

The continental competition was postponed because of the Covid-19 outbreak in China.

The AFI (Athletics Federation of India) has recently released the qualification marks for the upcoming Asian Games 2023 to be held in Chengdu, China. Several Indian athletes will look to achieve the qualification criteria in the upcoming events starting with the Open Throws event to be held on 01 March 2023. With the Asian Games set to be in the month of August-September, the athletes have a good number of competitions to compete in and breach the qualification criteria.

Men	Events	Woman
10.19s	100m	11.42s
20.61s	200m	23.43s
46.17s	400m	52.96s
1:49.05s	800m	2:04.57s
3:47.84s	1500m	4:15.49s
14:00.00s	5000m	15:49:00s
29:30.00s	10000m	32:30.24s
08:35.40s	3000m SC	09:47.00s
-	100mH	13.63s
13.57s	110mH	-
49.75s	400mH	57.48s
7.95m	Long Jump	6.45s
16.60m	Triple Jump	13.58m
5.40m	Pole Vault	4.10m
2.24m	High Jump	1.84m
19.00m	Shot Put	16.30m
78.23m	Javelin Throw	56.46m
58.00m	Discuss Throw	57.00m
71.10m	Hammer Throw	62.03m
01:23.30h	20km RW	01:35.00h
02:35.00h	35km RW	02:58.30h
7500 points	Decathlon	-
-	Heptathlon	5654 points
02:15.00h	Marathon	02:37.00h
39.00s	4*100m relay	44.50s
03:03.97s	4*400m relay	03:33.23s
03:17.50s	Mixed relay	03:17.50s

In the field event the long jump and triple jump section there are many athletes who can breach the qualification mark. In Long Jump ( Murali Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin, and Anees Yahiya) all three have breached the 8.00m mark but for multi-sporting events, only two athletes per event can qualify from a country. So the three athletes will be having stiff competition among themselves and similarly, in the triple jump ( Abdulla Aboobeckar, Eldhose Paul, Karthik, and Praveen) all have breached the 16.60m mark before and they too will be having good competition among themselves.

Siva Subramanium who recently created a National Record in the pole vault during the National Games will once again have to create a fresh NR to qualify for the Asian Games. Siva currently has recorded 5.31m and now has to jump 0.9cm more to breach the mark.

In the track events of athletics, Jyoti Yaarraji in the 100m hurdles will be the player to watch out for in the sprint category. The 400m relay team has been performing well at the Asian Games and this time too will look to perform in the same fashion. India will have to form a core team in order to perform well in the relay events as the current team has performed poorly at the Commonwealth Games and other events.

The COVID-19 cases in China have once again begun to rise up rapidly but there is no official announcement as to any postponement of the Asian Games.