S Dhanalakshmi

Dutee Chand, Hima Das named in Indian women's 4x100m team for World Athletics Relays

S Dhanalakshmi, who had beaten Dutee in the final of women's 100m sprint in the Federation Cup last month, was also named in the team, along with Archana Suseendran, Himashree Roy and AT Daneshwari.

S Dhanalakshmi outpaces Hima Das in 200m semi-final heats at Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships

Her victory over Hima Das (Assam) in the semi-final heats lifted her to the top 10 of Indian all-time list. Archana Suseendran (Tamil Nadu) won her semi-final heats in 24.07 seconds to raise expectations of an interesting final.

Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships: S Dhanalakshmi beats Dutee Chand in 100m final

The 22-year-old Dhanalakshmi of Tamil Nadu took the gold by clocking 11.39 seconds ahead of Dutee (11.58) of Odisha to become the fastest woman of the championships on the second day of competitions at the NIS Campus.

World Athletics Championships 2019: Archana Suseendran to take part in showpiece event after receiving late invite from IAAF

After a review of the final entries, the world body, IAAF found that some of the qualified athletes would not be able to take part in the 27 September to 6 October showpiece event and sent out late invites.