Indian duo swims closer to Rio mark

New Delhi, May 5 

Swimmers Sandeep Sejwal and Supriya Mondal have surpassed the 'B' qualification mark for the 2016 Olympics at the 59th Malaysian Open Swimming Championships in Selangor, Malaysia. Competing in their first international event this year, both the swimmers won gold medals in their respective events.

Sandeep clocked 1:02.45s for a meet record in the 100m breaststroke, while Supriya dished out a national-record breaking timing of 2:00.54s in the 200m butterfly. The duo will feature next at the 2016 Japan Open Swimming Championship, scheduled to be held in Tokyo from May 20-22.  Sandeep is a bronze medallist from the 2014 Asian Games and an Arjuna awardee, while young Supriya has represented India at the 2014 Youth Olympics.     

Olympics berths up for grabs in 2nd Indian GP    

New Delhi: With less than four months to go for the Rio Games, a slew of current stars, former champions and upcoming athletes will go all out to clinch the Olympics quota places at the second Indian Grand Prix at NIS Patiala tomorrow. Dutee Chand, who created a national record in the women's 100m at the Federation Cup in New Delhi but missed the Olympics qualification mark by hundredth of a second, will be the favourite to make the cut. Rajiv Arokia, who smashed the national record in the men's 400m event, and Anilda Thomas, who took the gold medal in the women's 400m event, will also be watched keenly. 

Last chance for wrestlers

New Delhi: The Indian wrestlers will look to secure as many Olympics quota places as possible at the 2nd World Qualifying tournament starting in Instanbul on Friday. As it is the last qualifier, the wrestlers will be under a lot of pressure to put in their best. 

The 14-member Indian team will be without the Phogat sisters, Geeta (58kg) and Babita (53kg), Sumit (125kg freestyle) and Rahul Aware (men's 57kg freestyle). All of them have been handed a temporary suspension on disciplinary grounds. Geeta, Babita and Sumit were pulled up for forfeiting their bouts in the previous qualifying event in Ulaanbaatar last month. Aware, who was shortlisted by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) to train in Tbilisi along with his colleagues, had refused to board the flight.

Squad: Men's Freestyle: Gopal Yadav (86kg), Mausam Khatri (97kg), Hitender (125kg). Women: Vinesh (48kg), Lalita (53kg), Sakshi Malik (58kg), Shilpi Sheron (63kg), Geetika Jhakar (69kg), Kiran (75kg).

Greco-Roman: Ravinder Singh (59kg), Suresh Yadav (66kg), Gurpreet Singh (75kg), Ravinder Khatri (85kg), Naveen (130kg). — Agencies