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Vishnu Saravanan secures Olympics quota for sailing
He is the first Indian to earn a spot in the Paris Games sailing competition.
Vishnu Saravanan secures Paris Quota / (Image - X, OlympicsKhel)
Indian sailor Vishnu Saravanan has qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by placing 26th at the Adelaide, Australia-hosted ILCA 7 World Championship.
He is the first Indian to earn a spot in the Paris Games sailing competition. However, he was fifth among sailors eligible to secure quotas for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
With a net score of 125, the 24-year-old subedar from the Army Yachting Node in Mumbai placed 26th out of 152 competitors from 53 countries in the championship. After ten races, he was the highest-ranked Asian and seventh-rated among sailors whose country had not secured a quota slot.
There were a total of seven quota spots available in the one-person dinghy category at the World Championships.
Saravanan, who won bronze in the Hangzhou Asian Games and bronze in the World under-21 competition in 2019, follows Farokh Tarapore, who participated in the Olympics in 1984, 1988, and 1992, as the only other Indian sailor to compete in several Games. As one of the four members of the Indian sailing squad, he placed 20th in his Olympic event.
Saravanan competed for India in the men's laser event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, placing 23rd and 22nd in the fifth and sixth races. He was one of the four sailors from India to compete in the Tokyo Games, a record for the nation.
His success is encouraging for Indian sailing, which has been rising rapidly in recent years. At the Paris Olympics, which are set to take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024, he hopes to raise his game and take on the world's top sailors.
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