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Rio Olympics 2016: Lalita Babar finishes 10th in 3,000m steeplechase, disappointment in athletics continue

Updated on: 15 August,2016 08:30 PM IST  | 
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Lalita Babar failed to repeat her creditable display in the qualification as she finished 10th in the women's 3000m steeplechase finals as Indians continued their disappointing performance in track and events of the Rio Olympics on Monday

Rio Olympics 2016: Lalita Babar finishes 10th in 3,000m steeplechase, disappointment in athletics continue

Rio de Janeiro: Lalita Babar failed to repeat her creditable display in the qualification as she finished 10th in the women's 3000m steeplechase finals as Indians continued their disappointing performance in track and events of the Rio Olympics on Monday.


Lalita clocked nine minutes and 22.74 seconds -- nearly three seconds behind her national record timing in the water and barrier race -- at the Olympic Stadium.


Lalita Babar(From Left to right) Ethiopia's Etenesh Diro, India's Lalita Shivaji Babar, Australia's Genevieve Lacaze and Kenya's Lydia Chebet Rotich compete in the Women's 3000m Steeplechase Final during the athletics competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. Pic/AFP


The Maharashtra athlete was inside the top eight competitors midway and was not able to push as much as she would have liked to towards the closing laps.

She had qualified to the final as a lucky loser, managing to squeeze in among the next top eight fastest outside the top two of each heat who qualified directly.

With the feat, Lalita also became the first Indian woman to qualify for an individual Olympic track event final since P.T. Usha did so in 400m hurdles in the 1984 Games.

Meanwhile, Ruth Jebet of Bahrain claimed the gold medal after finishing the race in 8:59.75 minutes, while Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi of Kenya was second with a timing of 9:07.12.

Emma Coburn of the United States won the bronze medal in 9:07.63.

Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya finished a distant fourth with a timing of 9:16.05.

Despite her 10th finish, the 27-year-old's effort was still the best performance by an Indian in a track event after after PT Usha's fourth-place finish in the 400m hurdles in 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

Meanwhile, triple jumper Renjith Maheswary's flop show on the big stage continued as he failed to make it to the final round after finishing 30th overall out of 48 competitors in the qualification with a pedestrian best effort of 16.13m. He finished 15th in the triple jump event.

The 30-year-old Kerala athlete had made the Rio Olympics cut on the last day of qualification period on July 11 at the hurriedly arranged Indian Grand Prix with a jump of 17.30m.

In women's 200m also, India's Srabani Nanda finished sixth out of eight competitors in heat number five with a timing of 23.58 seconds. She has a personal best of 23.07. The Odiya girl finished 55th overall out of 72 competitors. 

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