World Athletics Championships | Indian 4x400m relay teams, Shivpal Singh fail to qualify for finals

The women’s quartet, in order of their running positions, was Jisna Mathew, MR Poovamma, VK Vismaya, and Venkatesan Subha. Clocking in at 3 minutes 29.42 seconds, the team finished sixth in the heat number one and 11th overall in the first round heats. The Indian team, however, bettered their earlier season’s best of 3:31.93 clocked during the IAAF World Relays in Yokohama, Japan, in May.

Earlier, Shivpal Singh was also unsuccessful in qualifying for the finals of the men’s javelin throw event as he finished 24th overall in the qualification round producing a best throw of 78.97m from his three attempts to finish 10th in the Group A qualification round. The 24-year-old Indian, who has a personal and season’s best of 86.23m, opened with a 75.91m before coming up with 78.97m in his second and committing a foul in his third attempt.

Gopi Thonakal, the first and so far the only Indian athlete to win a gold medal in the Asian Marathon Championship, clocked 2:15:57 to finish 21st out of 73 competitors in the men’s marathon.