{"id":22682,"date":"2021-07-29T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=131021"},"modified":"2021-07-29T19:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:04:02","slug":"tokyo-olympics-sajan-prakash-fails-to-move-into-the-semi-finals-of-the-100m-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-sajan-prakash-fails-to-move-into-the-semi-finals-of-the-100m-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Sajan Prakash fails to move into the semi-finals of the 100m butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swimmer Sajan Prakash finished second in his Heat but was unable to move to the semifinals of the men\u2019s 100m butterfly event, as India\u2019s dismal campaign at the Tokyo Olympics came to a close on Thursday. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Prakash, who also competed in the 2016 Rio Olympics, came in second in the second-slowest heat with a timing of 53.45 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At 51.74s, the cut was made. The 27-year-old from Kerala came in 46th place out of 55 competitors. The top-16 advanced to the semifinal round.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Prakash, Srihari Nataraj, and Maana Patel, all three Indian swimmers, have returned home following a poor performance in which they failed to even match their personal best timings in their primary events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prakash, who last month became the first Indian to break the Olympic \u2018A\u2019 qualification mark to qualify for the Tokyo Games, finished 24th overall in his favourite event, the 200m butterfly, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In the 100m backstrokes, Nataraj, who was competing in his debut Olympics, was ranked 27th out of 40 swimmers. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Prakash and Nataraj had continuously lowered their personal best times in the lead-up to the Tokyo Games, raising everyone\u2019s expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nataraj would have qualified for the semifinals if he had equalled his personal best in his event.<\/p>\n<p>Maana, who qualified for the Olympics through a \u201cuniversality quota,\u201d which lets a country to send one male and one female athlete to the Games, finished 39th overall in the women\u2019s 100m backstrokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prakash, Srihari Nataraj, and Maana Patel, all three Indian swimmers, have returned home following a poor performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":42868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2051,1526,1932,919,638],"class_list":["post-22682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-maana-patel","tag-olympics","tag-sajan-prakash","tag-swimming","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}