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Maana Patel becomes first Indian female swimmer to qualify for Tokyo Olympics
Updated On: 02 July, 2021 10:28 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Maana will take part in the 100m backstroke at the Tokyo Games and is the third Indian swimmer to have qualified after both Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash achieved Olympic Qualification Timing (OQT) `A` level recently.
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Indian woman swimmer Maana Patel`s participation in the Tokyo Olympics has been confirmed through `Universality quota`, the Swimming Federation of India (SFI) said. Maana will take part in the 100m backstroke at the Tokyo Games and is the third Indian swimmer to have qualified after both Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash achieved Olympic Qualification Timing (OQT) `A` level recently.
The Universality quota allows one male and one female competitor from a country to participate in the Olympics, provided no other swimmer from the same gender qualifies for the Games or receives a FINA invite based on his or her Olympic Selection time (B time). "It`s an amazing feeling. I have heard about the Olympics from fellow swimmers and watched it on the television and seen a lot of pictures," Maana told Olympics.com.
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