Sprinter Dutee Chand clinches qualification for Rio
The Odisha athlete is the 99th Indian to be heading for this year's Olympics.
Odisha sprinter Dutee Chand qualified for the upcoming Rio Olympics in the women’s 100m event on Saturday. Chand clocked 11.30 seconds in the 100 m heats at Kazakhstan to seal her berth. The Rio Olympics qualification mark is 11.32 seconds.
Chand had missed the qualifying score by 0.01 seconds at the 100 m event of Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championship 2016 in New Delhi in April this year. But with the new score in the event at Almaty, the 20-year-old sprinter became the 99th Indian to head for Rio Olympics 2016. Before her, PT Usha had qualified for the event in 1980 Olympics, The Indian Express said.