Stan Rayan
KOCHI
The entry listing for the approaching Federation Cup athletics has been launched and one of many large names lacking is 400m Nationwide file holder Muhammed Anas.
The 27-year-old, a member of the Indian crew which broke the Asian file within the males’s 4x400m relay ultimately 12 months’s Tokyo Olympics and which completed seventh on the 2019 Worlds within the combined relay, had additionally missed the current first two Indian Grand Prix legs in Thiruvananthapuram.
What has occurred to Anas?
“Anas had an harm and was getting handled from November. He began coaching severely solely a month again,” Nationwide chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair advised The Hindu on Wednesday.
The quartermiler, who was additionally part of the crew which received the 2018 Asian Video games combined relay gold and males’s 4x400m relay silver in Jakarta, is prone to open his competitors season in Could.
Radhakrishnan additionally revealed that V.Ok. Vismaya, one other member of the combined relay crew which completed seventh on the 2019 Doha Worlds, was down with COVID-19 in early February and completed her post-COVID therapy solely on March 15 as per the Sports activities Authority of India’s SOP.
Vismaya, who had helped India win the 2018 Asian Video games ladies’s 4x400m relay gold, was fifth within the 400m with a mediocre 55.03s in her season-opener on the Indian GP-2 in Thiruvananthapuram on March 23.
Her title doesn’t determine within the entry listing for the Federation Cup which begins at Malappuram on April 2.
Additionally lacking within the ladies’s 400m is Priya H. Mohan, Asia’s quickest quartermiler this 12 months together with her current 52.37s and the winner of the primary two Indian GP legs.
“We’re skipping the 400m as a result of we don’t need to do all of the six races (first spherical, semifinal and closing in 200m and 400m). We wished to work on velocity so we opted for the 200m,” mentioned Arjun Ajay, Priya’s coach.
