{"id":13524,"date":"2016-07-12T11:53:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13524"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:53:58","slug":"dutee-chand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/dutee-chand\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutee Chand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Name the Indian sprinter who has recently qualified for the 100m event at Rio 2016?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Tintu<br \/>\n(b) Dutee Chand<br \/>\n(c) Chitra Soman<br \/>\n(d) None of the Above<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 25 June 2016 Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has qualified for the 100m event at Rio 2016.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">She completed her race in set time of 11.30 seconds in the 100m heats at the G Kosanov Memorial Meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additionally, Dutee revised her previous national record of 11:33 second to complete 100m.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rio Olympics entry standard was of 11.32 seconds.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dutee became the first Indian woman athlete in 36 years to qualify for 100 metres race in an Olympics after legendary P T Usha competed in the 1980 Moscow Games.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dutee became the first Indian woman to qualify for the event since qualification started for the event.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier P.T Usha had participated for the event in Olympics. But then there was no qualification system.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">P.T Usha secured fourth position in the finals of 1980 Moscow Olympics.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dutee is the first athlete from the state of Odisha who has qualified for the Olympics in an individual event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AFIIndiaofficial\/photos\/a.465418483577208.1073741828.435359463249777\/984730378312680\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AFIIndiaofficial\/photos\/a.465418483577208.1073741828.435359463249777\/984730378312680\/?type=3&amp;theater<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/sport-others\/dutee-chand-qualifies-for-rio-2016-olympics-in-womens-100m-2874973\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/sport-others\/dutee-chand-qualifies-for-rio-2016-olympics-in-womens-100m-2874973\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/other-sports\/rio-olympics-2016-dutee-chand-qualifies-for-rio-olympics-in-100m\/article8772869.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/other-sports\/rio-olympics-2016-dutee-chand-qualifies-for-rio-olympics-in-100m\/article8772869.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/36631294\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/36631294<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Name the Indian sprinter who has recently qualified for the 100m event at Rio 2016? (a) Tintu (b) Dutee Chand (c) Chitra Soman (d) None of the Above Ans: (b) Related facts: On 25 June 2016 Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has qualified for the 100m event at Rio 2016. She completed her race in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101],"tags":[2448],"class_list":["post-13524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fsper","tag-sports-personality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}