World Athletics Championships 2023: Full list of Indian's who have qualified

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Published at :August 3, 2023 at 8:02 AM

Modified at :January 13, 2024 at 4:52 PM

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19th edition of the competition has a record number of Indian participation

Close to 28 Indians/team have secured their entry for the World Athletics Championships 2023 scheduled to be held in Budapest, Hungary from 19 to 27. The Road to Budapest Rankings was updated on Wednesday (July 2nd) on the World Athletics website with the final update on the list made accordingly. The last date for qualification to the World’s was July 31st and this time India has good number contingent at the World’s compared to the last edition in Eugene (23).

Four men’s Javelin throwers got selected to the competition with Neeraj Chopra securing his quota by winning the Diamond League last year. With the Olympic champion receiving a direct entry, India had the opportunity of sneaking in three more athletes in the event and eventually, Rohit Yadav, DP Manu, and Kishore Kumar Jena made it through via the World Rankings. A total of 36 Javelin throwers are selected and Kishore occupied the 36th spot jumping three spots from last weeks rankings – after a PB throw at Sri Lanka National Athletics Championships.

Of the 28 member contingent, only nine got through via the Entry standard route with the rest qualifying through world rankings. Last year, Neeraj Chopra was the only Indian to secure a medal (silver) and overall India has only two medalists at the prestigious competition. This time with good squad, India has the opportunity to secure its first historic gold.

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Indian’s who have qualified for World Athletics Championships 2023

No	Athlete	Event	Qualified Through
1	Jeswin Aldrin	Men’s Long Jump	Entry Standard (8.25m)
2	Murali Sreeshankar	Men’s Long Jump	Entry Standard (8.25m)
3	Neeraj Chopra	Men’s Javelin	Wild Card (Diamond Leagued Champion)
4	Praveen Chitravel	Men’s Triple Jump	Entry Standard (17.20)
5	Abdulla Aboobacker	Men’s Triple Jump	World Rankings
6	Eldhose Paul	Men’s Triple Jump	World Rankings
7	Ajay Kumar Saroj	Men’s 800m	Area Champion
8	Santhosh Kumar	Men’s 400m Hurdles	World Rankings
9	Krishan Kumar	Men’s 800m	World Rankings
10	Avinash Sable	Men’s 3000m steeplechase	Entry Standard (08:15:00)
11	Tejaswin Shankar	Men’s High Jump	World Rankings
12	Sarvesh Kushare	Men’s High Jump	World Rankings
13	DP Manu	Men’s Javelin	World Rankings
14	Kishore Kumar Jena	Men’s Javelin	World Rankings
15	Tajinder Singh Toor	Men’s Shot Put	Entry Standard (21.40m)
16	India	Men’s 4*400m Hurdles
17	Ram Baboo	Men’s 35km Race Walk	World Rankings
18	Vikash Singh	Men’s 20km Race Walk	Entry Standard
19	Paramajeet Bisht	Men’s 20km Race Walk	Entry Standard
20	Akashdeep Singh	Men’s 20km Race Walk	Entry Standard
21	Jyothi Yarraji	Women’s 100m Hurdles	World Rankings
22	Parul Chaudhary	Women’s 3000m steeplechase	World Rankings
23	KM Chanda	Women’s 800m	World Rankings
24	Shaili Singh	Women’s Long Jump	World Rankings
25	Bhawna Jat	Women’s 20km Race Walk	World Rankings
26	Priyanka Goswami	Women’s 20km Race Walk	Entry Standard
27	Annu Rani	Women’s Javelin	World Rankings
28	Rohit Yadav*	Men’s Javelin	World Rankings

*Injured

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