Did the Athletics Federation of India err while fixing the qualifying standard in the women’s 400m for next month’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham?
It seems so. The AFI’s entry standard for the Games’ women’s quartermile is 50.13s which is a lot faster than the gold-winning time at the last two Commonwealth Games, 2014 Glasgow (Jamaican S. McPherson’s 50.67s) and 2018 Gold Coast (50.15s by Botswana’s Amantle Montsho).
In fact, the AFI’s qualifying standard is very close to the Commonwealth Games record (50.10s) of Montsho which came at the 2010 edition in New Delhi.
