New Delhi: Jhuma Khatun clocked her personal best timing to qualify for the women's 1500m final while compatriot Sushma Devi fell by the wayside with a disappointing performane in the Commonwealth Games here on Thursday.
Jhuma bettered her personal best of 4:14.32 which she set in July, to finish sixth in women's 1500m heat one.
Sushma clocked 4:22.05, way below her personal best of 4:13.22 and season's best of 4:14.06 to finish seventh in the second heat and crashed out of the competition.
Kenyan Olympic champion Nancy Jebet Langat won one of the heats with a timing 4:13.62, much below her season's and personal best of 4:00.13.
Another Kenyan athlete, who won the second heat, led the time charts on Thursday with an effort of 4:08.76.
In men's high jump, both national record holder Hari Shankar Roy and and Nikhil Chittarasu qualified for the finals with identical efforts of 2.16m. Roy equalled his season's best effort although he was way below his personal best of 2.25m which he did six years ago.
For Nikhil also, it was the season's best effort. In men's 400m race, India's lone participant Harpreet Singh failed to qualify for the semi-finals after finishing fifth in one of the heats with a timing of 48.29s.
Conrad Williams of England topped the chart clocking the best time of 45.78sec followed by Mark Kiprotich Muttai of Kenya (45.90sec) in the event rendered second grade with several athletes from Jamaica, England and Australia skipping it.
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