The Previous Chance Regatta, as they say, is the last opportunity for Indian sailors to grab Paris Olympic quota spots in the remaining nine categories of sailing. The qualifiers are scheduled to be held from 20-27 April in Hyeres, France.
Nethra Kumanan, Prince Noble and Manu Francis will be spearheading the 17-member Indian contingent for this Olympic Qualifying celebration in France. Vishnu Saravanan is the lone Indian sailor to have secured a Paris Olympics spot in the men’s ILCA7 classification.
The races will start off on April 21 and the few best-placed sailors will protected the Paris Olympics quota places. A place can have a utmost of 1 quota position in every single of the ten disciplines.
Nethra Kumanan also represented India at the Tokyo Olympics, but she marginally skipped out on a quota spot at the Asian Online games and Globe Championships. Nethra will be aiming to secure her 2nd Olympic quota position at this event in France.
India will have the very best bet in the low discipline of mixed crew races like Multihull Nacra 17 and Dinghy 470. Two Indian pairs every will symbolize India at these occasions while the knowledgeable men’s pair of Prince-Manu will consider to carry on their variety from very last year.
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Men: Ravindra Kumar Sharma, Sudhanshu Shekhar, Prince Kurisinkal Noble, Manu Francis, Anand Thakur, Satyam Rangad, Chitresh Tatha, Aditya Sangwan, Dayne Edgar Agnelo Coelho, Saurabh Kumar, Siddeshwar Indar Doiphode
Women of all ages: Shraddha Verma, Uma Chouhan, Ishwariya Ganesh, Katya Ida Coelho, Nethra Kumanan, Ramya Saravanan,
Quotas Accessible
Men’s windsurfer IQFoil – Seven
Men’s kite Components Kite – 5
Men’s skiff 49er – 4
Women’s windsurfer IQFoil – Seven
Women’s A single-Particular person Dinghy ILCA 6 – Four
Blended two-human being dinghy 470 – 4
Mixed multihull Nacra 17 – 4
Particulars
Time: 1:00 PM IST
Location: Fort of Hyeres
Place: Hyeres, France
No. of races:- 20-21
Dwell streaming
The reside streaming and stay scores of the Final Chance Regatta will be readily available on the formal app and web site of SOF FFVOile.