PATIALA: Veteran Thrower Discus Seema Punia on Tuesday qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with the best effort of 63.70 million while winning gold on the last day of the athletic championship between the national countries here.
The 37-year-old Punia, who has won silver in the 2018 Commonwealth and Bronze Games in the 2018 Asian game, violates the 63.50 million Olympic qualification.
Read Ashok’s Ira-Timah became the first Indian golfer to be eligible for the official Tokyo Olympicsit, Aditi Ashok, Lone India’s Golfer on the LPGA tour, would represent the country at the Tokyo Olympics, starting in less than a month.
He was 28 years old in the Olympic rank three years ago and No.
45 in the field of 60 players when the list announced by the International Federus Golf will take part in its fourth Olympics after the 2004 game edition, 2012 and 2016 and 2016.
The punia will be the second Indian woman to participate in the Tokyo Olympics after the Kamalpreet Kaur’s national record holder, which Throw an iron disk to a distance of 66.59m at the Indian Grand Prix on the last Monday.
Kaur did not start the event on Tuesday, even though his name was initially there.