Another of the good news for India following the silver win of Vijay Kumar in shooting, as India's medal hope Krishna Poonia on Friday qualified for the women's discus throw final round in London Olympics. But her compatriot Seema Antil missed out by a whisker on the first day of track and field events.

Meanwhile, earlier in the day, few of India hopes sunken as shot putter Om Prakash Karhana and triple jumper Mayookha Johny failed to advance to the final round after finishing 19th and 22nd respectively in the qualification round.

Poonia finished eighth in the qualification round while Antil ended at 13th at the showpiece Olympic Stadium. Those who touched the qualification mark of 63.00m or the best 12 make it to the final round to be held on Saturday. Poonia began with a foul throw but regained her composure to hurl the one-kg discus to 63.54m to finish fifth in Group A and eighth overall.

Antil had a best effort of 61.91m, which she came up in her third and final throw, to finish 13th and missed the final round. Commonwealth Games gold medallist Poonia thus became the only sixth Indian to make it to the final round of track and field events in Olympics after Milkha Singh, PT Usha, S Sriram, Gurbachan Singh Randhawa and Anju Bobby George.

We hope she succeeds in the final battle!

Source: TNN