Indian athletics team for CWG 2010 announced
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IBNS): The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) named a 90-member team on Tuesday for the upcoming Commonwealth Games (CWG), with a hope of producing the best result for the country in the Games.
AFI selected 46 men and 44 women, to compete in 45 track and field events to be held at the Commonwealth Games in October.
In a release, AFI Acting Secretary Ravinder Chaudhry said the performances of the athletes from Apr 2010 to the beginning of Aug when the National inter-State meet was held in Patiala had been considered by the selection panel.
The names of the walkers for the 20km event will be announced later while the relay teams will be selected on Sept 15.
India has won a gold medal (Milkha Singh in 400 yards in 1958), five silver and four bronze medals in track and field competition at the Commonwealth Games.
The team
Men:
100m, 4x100m: Abdul Najib Qureshi, BG Nagaraj, Krishna Kumar Rane, Hemant Kirulkar, Rahamattulla Molla, Shameer Mon, Ritesh Anand, Manikandaraj and S Sathya.
200m: Dharambir and Abdul Najib Qureshi.
400m, 4x400m: Kunhi Mohammad, Vinay Chaudhry, J Premanand, Harpreet Singh, VB Bineesh, Jithin Paul, Bibin Mathew and SK Mortaja.
800m: Pankaj Dimri, P.Francis Sagayaraj and Manjit Singh.
1500m: Sandeep Karan Singh and C Hamza.
5000m: Sunil Singh and Sandeep Batham.
10000m: Sunil Singh.
110m hurdles: Siddhanth Thingalaya.
400m hurdles: Joseph Abraham.
3000m steeplechase: Elam Singh and Ramachandran.
Marathon: Bining L.
Shot put: Om Prakash and Sourabh Vij.
Discus throw: Vikas Gowda.
Javelin throw: Kashi Nath and Samareet Singh.
Hammer throw: Chandrodaya Narayan.
Long jump: Maha Singh, Ankit Sharma and Hari Krishnan M.
Triple jump: Renjith Maheshwari and Amarjit Singh.
High jump: Nikhil Chitrasau and Hari Shanker Roy.
Pole vault: Gajanan Upadhyay.
Decathlon: Bhartinder Singh and P J Vinod.
Women:
100m, 4x100m: S Geetha, HM Jyothi, PK Priya, Sarbani Nanda, Rebecca Jose, Nirupama Sunderraj, Arjina Khatun and Ch Shanthi.
200m: HM Jyothi, S. Geetha
400m, 4x400m: Mandeep Kaur, Jaunu Murmu, Ashwini AC, Sini Jose, Tiana Mary Thomas, Chitra K. Soman, Mridula K, MR Poovamma, Priyanka Panwar and Manjit Kaur.
800m: Tintu Luka and Sinimol Paulose.
1500m: Shushma Devi, Jhuma Khatun and OP Jaisha.
5000m: Kavita Raut, Preeja Sreedharan and Laita Babar.
10000m: Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut.
100m hurdles: G Gayathri.
400m hurdles: Jauna Murmu and Ashwani AC.
3000m steeplechase: OP Jaisha, Sudha Singh and Priyanka Patel.
Marathon: Sukanya Mall Singh.
Discus throw: Krishna Poonia, Harwant Kaur and Seema Antil.
Shot put: Manpreet Kaur.
Javelin throw: Saraswathi S.
Hammer throw: Hardeep Kaur.
Long jump: Mayookha Johny, Prajusha MA and Reshmi Bose.
Triple jump: Mayookha Johny, Prajusha MA and G. Gayathri.
High jump: Kavya Muthanna and Sahana Kumari.
Hepthathon: Promila Aiyappa, Sushmita Singha Roy and Navpreet Kaur.
Coaching staff: Bahadur Singh (Chief Coach), RS Sidhu, Parvir Singh, Renu Kohli, N Ramesh, Virender Punia, Gurdev Singh, Nishad Kumar, MS Dhillon, Jogesh Kumar, YC Saha, JS Bhatia, MA George, Jose Mathew, Kuntal Roy, PT Usha, Yuri Ogorodonik, Nikolai Snesarev, Arnold
Stasuik, Datsuik V, Kravcheko V, Dmytry Vanayakin and Alexander.
Support staff: Kenny Patrick, Elmira Kravchenko, Natalya, Dymytry Buldov, Pawan Kumar Saini, Neol W Dass and Nayak Ashish Kushwaha.
Managers: MK Pathak, Suman Rawat and Mumtaz Khan.
"The competition will be tough and we are not thinking of medal at this stage. Our main focus is to give our best in Beijing," said the Punjab Police sub-inspector, who bagged a gold (4x400m relay) and a silver (400m) at the 
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