National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Guntur

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Jul 15, 2017, 06:04 PM

National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Guntur

Andhra Pradesh: Guntur, July 15: The prestigious tournament 57th National Inter-State Athletics Championships competing with leading athletes is going to be started in Acharya Nagarjuna university in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh state in the country here on Saturday.

Of all the 23 matches, the 800 players will be participating from 25 states across the country. The Andhra Pradesh government has spent Rs 6 crores for the tournament.The National Athletics will start with 5,000 meters race at 6 am on the first day.

The four-day Championships, which will see a newly-laid blue synthetic track, will be the last chance for those athletes who are yet to attain the qualifying mark for the IAAF World Championships scheduled for August 4-13 in London.

Upbeat after putting India on top of the medal tally at the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar recently, the likes of Mohammed Anas, Ajay Kumar Saroj, Manpreet Singh and other elite Indian athletes will be in action again at the Acharya Nagarjuna University.

The selection committee for finalizing the Indian team for the World Championships is scheduled to meet on July 20 at the AFI headquarters in New Delhi.