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Women's relay team fails to qualify
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August 22, 2008 18:09 IST

Indian women's quartet of 4x400m relay failed to qualify for the finals after finishing a disappointing seventh in the qualifying heats in the Olympics [Images] on Friday.

The team of Satti Geetha, Manjeet Kaur, Chitra Soman and Mandeep Kaur clocked 3:28.83s in the eight-team heat number one, bringing curtains down on India's overall campaign at the Games.

India, who entered the race as 15th best timed team, could not better their 3:28.29s effort in Korat (Thailand) in Asian Grand Prix two months ago which booked a berth in the Olympics. They were also far behind their national record of 3:26.89s in 2004 Athens Olympics.

The Indian girls were more than three seconds behind Germany [Images] (3:25.55s), who were the last qualifying team in the heat one.

Russia [Images] (3:23.71s), Cuba (3:25.46s) and Britain (3:25.48s) were top three finishers in the heat.



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