Mana Patel became the first women swimmers to qualify for the Olympics

Maana Patel became the first Indian female swimmer to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics through the ‘Universality quota’.

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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).

Maana Patel, 21, will join Sajan Prakash and Srihari Natarajan in India’s swimming squad for this month’s Summer Olympics which will take place in Japan’s capital city from July 23 to August 8.