Jinson Johnson, Dharambir Singh, Renjith Maheshwari qualify for Rio 2016 Olympics

Maheshwari’s leap of 17.30 m over took previous best of Arpinder Singh who held a record of 17.17 m leap while Dharambir’s timing of 20.45s in the 200m came out to be better than that of his own timing of 20.66s.

The qualification mark for men’s 200m for the Rio Olympics was set at 20.50s.

For men’s trimple jump it was 16.85m.

The qualification standard for the 800m was 1:46.00s.

Dharambir Singh made him the first Indian male athlete to qualify for the 200m event at the Olympics in 36 years.