Paris 2024: Sailing - Second consecutive Olympics for Vishnu Saravanan and Nethra Kumanan

Paris 2024: Sailing - Second consecutive Olympics for Vishnu Saravanan and Nethra Kumanan
Vishnu Saravanan has become the first Indian sailor to book a quota place in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The 24-year-old subedar from the Mumbai-based Army Yachting Node earned a net score of 125 and finished 26th among 152 participants from 53 nations in the 2024 ILCA7 men’s World championships in Adelaide. He was fifth among the sailors whose countries had not won a quota place and was the best ranked Asian after 10 races.
Vishnu, a Hangzhou Asian Games bronze medallist and a World under-21 bronze medallist in 2019, will become the second Indian sailor after Farokh Tarapore, who competed in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics, to compete in multiple editions of the Games. Part of the four-member Indian sailing team, he finished 20th in his event in the Tokyo Olympics.
Nethra Kumanan on Friday secured India’s second Paris Olympics quota in sailing, claiming it under the Emerging Nations Program banner at the Last Chance Regatta, an Olympic qualifier, in Hyeres, France.
Nethra, who has competed in the Tokyo Games three years ago, was competing in the women’s dinghy (ILCA 6).
Nethra managed 67 net points to finish fifth on the overall leaderboard. However, she secured the Olympic quota as the top performer among sailors from the Emerging Nations Program (ENP) who had not yet obtained a quota.
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