Dipa Karmakar in motion (Credit score: X)
The 30-year-old, who had completed a creditable fourth on the Baku Equipment World Cup in Azerbaijan final month, scored 12.500 within the first vault and 13.066 within the second vault to complete 12.783.
Star India gymnast Dipa Karmakar on Wednesday entered the ladies’s vault ultimate after ending sixth within the qualifying spherical of the continued FIG Equipment World Cup, a Paris Olympics qualifying occasion, in Doha.
The 30-year-old, who had completed a creditable fourth on the Baku Equipment World Cup in Azerbaijan final month, scored 12.500 within the first vault and 13.066 within the second vault to complete 12.783.
Navas Karla (13.916), Georgieva Valentina (13.316) and An Chang Okay (13.166) took the primary three positions within the qualifying spherical.
The highest eight finishers within the qualification spherical make it to the finals.
“I’m grateful to SAI for sending me. Dipa is sixth now and she is going to look to do higher within the ultimate. She has gone by means of rather a lot. It’s not straightforward to compete in opposition to world’s greatest after two ACLs (anterior cruciate ligament damage), so we’re not considering an excessive amount of about Olympic qualification,” her long-time coach Bishweshwar Nandi advised PTI.
The ultimate is scheduled on Friday.
The opposite Indian within the fray, Pranati Nayak, nonetheless, did not qualify for the ultimate after ending eleventh within the qualifying spherical.
Pranati, 29, who had received the bronze medal in vault occasion at Cairo World Cup this February and in addition represented India on the Tokyo Olympics, suffered a fall within the second vault to give you a rating of 12.416.
“She had a little bit of ankle swelling however it’s primarily the autumn within the second vault which affected her,” mentioned coach Ashok Kumar Mishra.
Dipa, who battled two knee operations in 2017 and 2019 as a result of ACL tears and a 21-month suspension as a result of a doping violation, is unlikely to qualify for the Paris Video games in vault as she at the moment has an Olympics qualification rating of 34 and even a gold medal right here will solely take her rating to 64.
“Solely two gymnasts in every equipment will qualify in ladies’s vault from this match and Bulgaria’s Valentina and Korea’s Chang are forward with 84 and 80 factors,” Mishra mentioned.
Valentina had received the gold forward of Chang within the final World Cup in Baku.
Gymnasts earn Olympic rating factors from the Equipment World Cup sequence primarily based on how nicely they do in comparison with different eligible gymnasts on every equipment. The very best-ranked eligible gymnast in a ultimate earns 30 rating factors, second highest 25, and so forth.
Dipa, who returned after finishing the dope ban solely final yr, didn’t take part within the World Cup in Cottbus, Germany (Feb 22-25).
Dipa had completed fifth in Cairo (Feb 15-18) World Cup, the place Pranati received a bronze.
The Asian Championship, scheduled to be held in Uzbekistan from Could 16 to 19, is the ultimate Olympic qualifier.
“In Asian Championships, just one lady can qualify and that too in all-round. It is going to be extraordinarily robust, our ladies must do nicely not solely in vault but in addition in different three equipment,” Mishra mentioned.
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