Final spot for Neelam after season’s best

Asian Games discus throw champion Neelam Jaswant Singh created history by becoming the first Indian to qualify for the final of a World Athletic Championship. Neelam achieved the feat in the Worlds at Paris when the 32-year-old Indian’s third and last throw of 60.33m, her best this season, surpassed the automatic qualifying mark of 60m and earned her a spot in tomorrow’s final. Neelam, competing in group B, began with a throw of 57.70m and came very close to the qualification mark with her second effort which measured 59.48m, According to information received here.

Neelam was placed 11th among the 12 finalists which was headed by Russian world champion Natalya Sadova who cleared a distance of 63.47m.