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The nationwide file holder in girls’s 3000m steeplechase Parul Chaudhary didn’t qualify for the ultimate spherical after ending eighth within the warmth race to finish her marketing campaign within the Paris Olympics on Sunday. The 29-year-old Parul, who underwent high-altitude coaching within the USA for a number of months within the lead-up to the Video games, ran the space at 9 minutes 23.39 seconds, which was her season’s finest however nicely under her nationwide mark of 9:15.31, clocked within the 2023 Budapest World Championships. The highest-five every from the three warmth races qualify for the ultimate.
The defending Olympic champion Peruth Chemutai of Uganda received the warmth primary with 9:10.51 whereas Religion Cherotich (9:10.57) of Kenya and Gesa Felicitas Krause (9:10.68) from Germany had been second and third respectively.
This dropped at an finish to Parul’s marketing campaign who had additionally didn’t qualify for the ladies’s 5000m race together with Ankita Dhyani.
Parul had made direct qualification for the 3000m steeplechase – her pet occasion – after breaching the entry commonplace of 9:23.00.
Lalita Babar was the lone Indian girl 3000m steeplechaser to qualify for the ultimate spherical within the 2016 Rio Olympics, the place she in the end completed tenth.
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