World Championships: Javelin thrower Shivpal Singh, men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams crash out

The Indian men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams produced disappointing performances while javelin thrower Shivpal Singh too crashed out of the World Championships on Saturday. 

Jisna Mathew, M R Poovamma, V K Vismaya and Venkatesan Subha clocked 3 minutes 29.42 seconds to finish sixth in the women's heat number one and 11th overall in the first round heats to fail to qualify for the finals.

As for the men’s team, Amoj Jacob, Muhammed Anas, K Suresh Jeevan and Noah Nirmal Tom ran 3:03.09 to finish seventh in heat number 2 and 13th overall out of 16 countries.

However, the women’s quartet bettered their earlier season’s best of 3:31.93 during the IAAF World Relays in Yokohama, Japan, in May.

With this India’s hopes of reaching the finals and booking Olympic berths in men’s and women’s 4x400m relay events went down the drain.

Earlier, javelin thrower Shivpal Singh also failed to qualify for the finals as he finished 24th overall in the qualification round.

Shivpal threw 78.97m which was his best from his three attempts. He finished 10th in the Group A qualification round.

The 24-year-old - who has a personal and season’s best of 86.23m - opened with a 75.91m before coming up with 78.97m. 

Shivpal’s third attempt was a foul as he crashed out of the championships.

(Agency Inputs)