Four National Records set at Indian Grand Prix (IGP) 4

National Record in Indian Women's 4x100m relay

Duttee Chand (Credits: Kiren Rijiju Office/Twitter)

The Indian sprint quartet comprising of Dutee Chand, Hima Das, Dhanalaxmi and Archana Suseedran created a new national record at IGP 4 in the women's 4x100m relay when they clocked 43.37 seconds.

Although they were unable to qualify directly for the Olympics even after setting the national record, the quartet were definitely given a boost in their bid to improve further.

The Olympic qualifying mark is 43.05 seconds and the team will now believe they have a genuine chance of making it to Tokyo. The upcoming inter-state meet would be the final chance for this team to touch the 43.05 seconds mark and qualify for the Olympics.

Interestingly, Dutee Chand was also a part of the quartet which held the previous national record.

In 2016, the 4x100m women relay team comprising Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda, HM Jyoti and Merlin Joseph had clocked 44.03s at at the IAAF World Challenge in Beijing. Although the team had finished fourth in the race, a new national record was created. That team had then broken the the 18-year-old record of 44.43s created by the quartet of Saraswati Dey, Rachita Mistry, EB Shyla and PT Usha.