Indian Relay Team in World Athletics Championships 2023 Final: India’s men’s 4×400 relay team has also created history by qualifying for the finals of the World Athletics Championships 2023. On Saturday, the Indian team managed to make it to the final for the first time.
The Indian relay team completed its race in 2 minutes 59.05 seconds, which is the highest for any Asian country. Mohammad Ajmal, Amoj Jacob, Mohammad Anas Yahiya and Rajesh Ramesh were included in this team.
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India punches its ticket to the men’s 4x400m final with a huge Asian record of 2:59.05 #WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/fZ9lBqoZ4h
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 26, 2023
Team India has qualified for the World Championship for the first time by securing the second position. Only America’s team was ahead of India. America’s relay team completed its race in 2 minutes 58.47 seconds. The final match will be held on Sunday. Earlier, India’s relay team has become the best team in Asia.
What? When? Where? An Indian men’s 4×400 relay team qualifying for the finals in the World Athletics Championship? Looks like everyone is shooting for the moon now… Look at them run… Our Cheetahs…. pic.twitter.com/K0Il2UEXpR
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) August 27, 2023
Let us tell you that before India, the fastest relay team among the Asian teams was from Japan, which made a record of 2 minutes 59.51 seconds. At the same time, the Indian team could only get a time of 3 minutes 00.25 seconds. This record was also made by the current team in 2020. At that time this team had missed the Olympic final.
Significantly, in this race of 4×400 meters relay on Saturday, there was a slow start from India. Mohammad Anas Yahiya gave the team a slow start. After the first round, India was at number six.
After this, Amoj Jacob increased the pace of the team and took India to the second place. Mohammad Ajmal Variathodi and Rajesh Ramesh, with their brilliant pace, qualified for the final by keeping India at number one two in the last two stages.
In this way, creating history, the Indian relay team confirmed its place in the final of the World Championship for the first time. The Indian team was ahead of the strong team of Britain (2:59:42) and Jamaica (2:59:82). Britain took third and Jamaica fifth. The final match of this event will be held on Sunday, 27 August 2023.