Despite a poor showing at the Commonwealth Games, the ace Indian long jumper climbed a notch in the IAAF rankings.
Ace long jumper Anju Bobby George placed second in the women's long jump with a leap of 6.52 metres at the Asian Games.
The Athletics Federation of India announced a 43-member contingent, comprising 21 men and 22 women athletes, for the Games.
The Indian long jumper could manage only 6.43m to finish a lowly seventh at the IAAF Super Tour in Doha.
Anju Bobby George, who managed a best leap of 6.54m, finished sixth in the women's long jump at the Commonwealth Games.
Ace long jumper Anju Bobby George would lead India's challenge in the Asian Grand Prix series in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
Russia's Kotova Tatyana won the gold with an effort of 6.83m.
'Those were not kind days for a woman with a break-up. The world has changed; today, nobody cares.'
Anju Bobby George won the women's long jump while the women's 4x400 metres relay team \nset a new record in the Asian Athletics Championships.
Anju Bobby George and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore were awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and the Arjuna award respectively.
The Indian lung jump ace slid a place to No. 5 in the latest IAAF rankings.
The ace Indian long jumper was robbed of all her valuables, including her passport, while training.
India's long jump ace's optimism springs from consistency in her jumps.
Star Indian long jumper Anju Bobby George has officially become the gold medal winner of the World Athletics Final, held at Monte Carlo in 2005, after the International Association of Athletics Federation ratified the result of the meet.
Anju, who made her Grand Prix debut at the Peroni Golden Gala meet in Rome last week, touched a distance of 6.54 metres on Saturday night
Hurt by allegations of corruption levelled against her by state Sports Minister E P Jayarajan, India's lone athletics World Championship medal winner Anju Bobby George today resigned as President of the Kerala Sports Council.
The 26-year-old said Athens would be her next target and would put all her effort to break the Olympic medal jinx of India.
Long jumper Anju Bobby George accomplished a season's best 6.55 metres to clinch a gold medal and add to India's medal tally of five gold, four silver and two bronze in the third leg of Asian Grand Prix in Haoni.
The long jumper qualified despite failing to better her season's best performance at the Word Athletics Championships.
The top ranking also ensured Anju an automatic place in the World Athletics Final in Monaco.
The ace long jumper said a leg injury cost her the gold in the event at the Asian Games.
The lanky long jumper cleared 6.53m to finish a disappointing ninth in the final of the World Championship.
Long jumper Shaili Singh lived up to the expectations as she made it to the finals after topping the qualification round with an effort of 6.40m in the Under-20 World Athletics Championships in Nairobi on Friday.
After being out of action for over a year due to ankle injury, India's ace long-jumper Anju Bobby George has resumed training once again but said she sees herself in competitive contention only next year.
India's ace long jumper expressed confidence of clearing the 7-metre barrier soon.
India's ace long jumper is striving for consistent seven metre-plus jumps this season.
Anju is in Pune to take part in the long jump competition of the third and final leg of the Asian Grand Prix circuit to be held on Friday.
The ace long jumper got 180 points for her sixth place at the Athens Olympics to move up with 1247 points.
The ace long jumper will begin preparations with a three-month training stint in Bangalore from December 1.
The Asian Games gold medallist leaped to a distance of 6.65 metres, at the Jim Bush Southern California championship.
India's champion long jumper says she is still struggling to find her rhythm.
With that in mind, India's World Athletics championships bronze medallist said victory is a sure possibility.
