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Indian quarter-miler Kiran Pahal completed sixth in warmth 1 of the ladies’s 400m repechage spherical on the Paris 2024 Olympics and failed her place within the semi-finals on Tuesday. Pahal clocked 52.59s within the repechage spherical, a time slower than her 52.51s end within the first spherical. The 24-year-old didn’t safe a semifinal as solely the highest athletes in every warmth, together with the 2 finest in repechage total, superior. At Paris 2024, a repechage spherical launched for all particular person observe occasions from 200m to 1500m (together with hurdles). The brand new format covers a complete of six totally different distances in each males’s and ladies’s races, which embrace 4 rounds as a substitute of the same old three.
Within the new repechage format, athletes who don’t qualify by inserting in spherical one heats, can have a second likelihood to qualify for the semi-finals by taking part in repechage heats.
This new repechage format will exchange the previous system, when athletes would advance by way of quickest occasions, typically often known as ‘fortunate losers’ along with the highest placings within the heats.
Kiran punched her ticket for Paris within the girls’s 400m throughout the Inter-State Athletics in June. She ran a blistering tempo to clock 50.92 seconds to raised the Paris Olympic Video games qualification time of fifty.95 on the opening day of the occasion.
She has additionally emerged because the second-fastest Indian feminine 400m runner of all time. Notably, Hima Das holds the nationwide report of fifty.79 seconds clocked in 2018.
Kiran is the primary Indian feminine quarter-miler to have certified for the Olympic Video games after a niche of eight years since Nirmal Sheoran (Haryana) certified for the 2016 Olympic Video games.
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