World Athletics Championships: Annu Rani reaches javelin throw final

Indias Annu Rani qualified for the javelin throw final at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon the first Indian woman to qualify for the second straight javelin throw final in World ChampionshipsAnnu Rani who had also reached the final Doha edition in 2019 and eventually finished eighth qualified for the final with a throw of 5960 metres She was placed eighth among 12 competitors that have qualified for the final to be held on FridayCompeting in Group B Annu started with a foul and then came up with a throw of 5535m and 5960m in her third attempt to finish fifth in her group Only three competitors Haruka Kitaguchi 6432m of Japan Tokyo Olympics winner Shiying Liu 6386m of China and Levita Jasiunaite 6380 of Lithuania achieved the qualifying standard of 6250m and will start as the favourites for the medalsThe qualifying cut was set at 6250m or the 12 best performers Annu thus was placed 8th among 29 competitors that participated in the competitionAlso Read World Athletics Championships 2022 FraserPryce cruises into 200m finalDefending champion KelseyLee Barber of Australia a Tokyo 2020 bronze winner and twotime Commonwealth Games medallist was fifth with a 6127m effort Threetime worlds medallist L Huihui of China 5759m Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Maria Andrejczyk of Poland 5547m Commonwealth Games champion Kathryn Mitchell of Australia 5309m and Rio Olympic champion Sara Kolak of Croatia foul did not make the cutParul Choudhary fails to reach finalMeanwhile Indias Parul Chaudhary failed to qualify for the final of the womens 5000m as she could only manage the timing of 155403 She finished 17th among 19 participants in Heat 2 whereas the top five qualified for the finalParul Chaudharys personal best in the 5000m is 153603 achieved at the Asian Athletics Championships in Doha in 2019 The womens 5000m national record is held by Preeja Sreedharan who clocked 151589 at the 2010 Asian Games in GuangzhouEthiopias Letesenbet Gidey who won the gold medal in the womens 10000m at Oregon earlier topped the heats with 145227Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia and Tokyo 2020 champion Sifan Hassan of Netherlands also made the cut Margaret Kipkemboi of Kenya silver medallist at Doha 2019 and the 2018 Commonwealth Games will also run in the finalThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever