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Kiran Pahal in motion© X (Twitter)
India’s Kiran Pahal didn’t guide an computerized semifinal spot in girls’s 400m after ending seventh in her warmth race of the Paris Olympics on Monday and she is going to now run in repechage spherical. Kiran, who turned 24 on Monday, clocked 52.51 seconds which was properly beneath her season’s and private finest of fifty.92 seconds. World champion Marileidy Paulino of Dominica received the warmth with a time of 49.42, adopted by Aaliyah Butler (50.52) of USA and Susanne Gogl-Walli (50.67) of Austria. Prime three in every of the six heats superior to semifinal.
All of the others — aside from DNS (Did Not Begin), DNF (Did Not End) and DQ (Disqualified)– moved to the repechage spherical to be held on Tuesday.
Pahal had made direct qualification to Paris Olympics after clocking her private finest of fifty.92 seconds within the Nationwide Inter-State Championships in June, A repechage spherical was launched in Paris Olympics to all particular person observe occasions from 200m to 1500m, together with the hurdles occasions. The brand new format changed the sooner one the place some athletes superior to the semifinals by quickest instances along with the highest placings within the first spherical heats.
As a substitute, solely the athletes within the high placings will get computerized qualification and all of the remaining will get a second likelihood to qualify for the semi-finals by collaborating in repechage heats.
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