Chennai :
The Indian University athletics team which is set to participate in the World University Games next month will have a lone Tamil Nadu athlete in its ranks.
Twenty-year old SN Mohammed Salahuddin, son of former triple jumper and current national athletics coach KS Nizammuddin, has been picked for the July 3-14 event scheduled to be held in Gwangju, South Korea.
In all 13 Indian athletes (five men, eight women) were selected following trials at the Punjabi University, Patiala on May 27 & 28. The World University Games is an international multi-sport event organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The Games has proved to be a springboard for the likes of athletes such as Michael Johnson and Michael Phelps.
A student of Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, triple jumper Salahuddin, won silver at the Federation Cup Senior National Championship in Mangaluru last month and clinched gold at the All India Inter University Athletics Championship earlier this year. A camp for the selected athletes will be held from June 11-26 at Moodbidri, Mangaluru.
Indian athletics team:
Men: Long jump: Mehakpreet Singh (Punjabi University, Patiala); Triple jump: SN Mohammed Salahuddin (Bharatiar University, Coimbatore); Shot put: Inderjeet Singh (Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjunanagar); Shot put: Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Punjabi University, Patiala); 400m: Lalit Mathur (University of Delhi, Delhi); Women: 100m: Pariyanka Kalgi S (Mangalore University, Mangalore); 500m &10000m Sanjiwani Jadhav (SBP Pune University, Pune); 5000m: Ritu Dinkar (Punjabi University, Patiala); Long jump: Bhumika Thakur (Punjabi University, Patiala); Shot put: Manpreet Kaur (Punjabi University, Patiala); Javelin throw: Poonam Rani (Ch Devi Lal University, Sirsa); 20km walk: Khushbir Kaur (Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar); Discus throw: Navjeet Kaur (Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar)
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> Sports / by Susan Ninan, TNN / June 08th, 2015