Hyeres, April 27 -- Tokyo 2020 Olympian Nethra Kumanan secured India's second Paris 2024 Olympics quota in sailing during the Last Chance Regatta, an Olympic qualifier event, held in Hyeres, France on Friday.

She was competing in the women's dinghy (ILCA 6), Nethra managed to get a fifth-place finish after scoring 67 points in the overall leaderboard. However, due to the virtue of being the top performer among all sailors from the Emerging Nations Program (ENP) who were yet to get a quota, she managed to earn her country a ticket to the Olympics.

World Sailing, the governing body of the discipline at the worldwide level makes use of the ENP programme to help sailors from countries that are not known to have a massive culture of this spo...