AAFI announces team for SAF Games

National record holder Amritpal Singh will spearhead a strong 64-member Indian athletic contingent in the ninth SAF Games starting in Islamabad on March 29.

The list, named by the Amateur Athletic Federation of India on Saturday, has 38 men and 26 women participants who would be accompanied by 12 officials.

The team has been selected on the basis of the performance in the recently concluded Federation Cup Athletics championship.

List of Athletes:

MEN:
100 M : Piyush Kumar, Vilash Nalgunde
200 M : Piyush Kumar, Vilash Nalgunde
400 M : P Shanker, K Suresh;
800 M : Ghamanda Ram, K S Ashok
1500 M: Ghamanda Ram, Sunil Kumar
5000 M: Sunil Kumar, Mukesh Kumar
110 MH: Krishna Mohan, E. Muthuswamy
400 MH: Kuldev Singh, B. Prasad Reddy;
3000 M ST C: Ranjan kumar Jha, Ram Bahadur Subb
LONG JUMP: Amrit Pal Singh, Maha Singh
TRIPLE JUMP: Amarjeet Singh, Santison K.C
HIGH JUMP: Omveer Singh, Balraj Singh
SHOT PUT: Ranvijay Singh, Kulwinder Singh
DISCUSS: Hirdyanand Singh, Sukhbir Singh
HAMMER: Madhu Kumar, Nirbhay Singh
JAVELIN: Mukesh Kumar Mehra, Lijesh Kumar, Jagdish Kumar
4 x 100 M: Piyush Kumar, Vilash Nalgunde Jaychandran H., Sandeep Sarkaria Nagraj, Arshad Hussain
4 x 400 M: P. Shankar, K. Suresh, Anil Kr. Rohil, Sreejith P S, T G Ajesh, Amish Pottan
MARATHON:  K C Ramu, Shivdan Singh.

WOMEN:
100 M: Poonam Tomar, Greeshma
200 M: Poonam Tomar, K Rama Devi
400 M: S. Geetha, Chitra K. Soman
800 M: Madhuri A. Singh, Sunita
1500 M: Preeja Sridharan, Hemlata B
100 H: Soma Biswas, K N Priya
LONG JUMP: Jetty C Joseph, Pooja Ahlawat
HIGH JUMP: M Sangeetha, Sahana Kumari
SHOT PUT: N. Latha, Chaitali Paul
DISCUSS: Seema Antil, Krishna Poonia
JAVELIN: Gurmeet Kaur, Suman Devi
4 x 100 M: Poonam Tomar, Greeshma K M, K N Priya, Rakhi Saha, K Rama Devi, Aruna Kumari
4 x 400 M: S Geetha, Chitra K Soman, Pinki Parmanik, Sagardeep Kaur; Kalpna Reddy, Soma Biswas.