Tokyo Olympics / Dutee fails to qualify for 200m semis at Tokyo Olympics despite her season best timing

Indian sprinter Dutee Chand failed to qualify for women's 200m semi-finals despite posting a season best timing of 23.85 seconds in the heats. The 25-year-old finished last in the heat 4. With this, her Tokyo Olympics campaign ended. Earlier, she had failed to qualify for the 100m semi-finals after posting a timing of 11.54 seconds in the heats.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Aug 02, 2021, 08:57 AM
Tokyo: Indian sprinter Dutee Chand continued her disappointing run at the Olympics as she failed to qualify for the women's 200m semifinals after finishing last in her heat here on Monday.

Dutee registered a season's best timing of 23.85 seconds to finish seventh and last in Heat 4 which was topped by Christine Mboma of Namibia with a timing 22.11 seconds.

Top three finishers from each of the seven heats and the next three fastest qualify for the semifinals.

Dutee, who has a personal best of 23 seconds, ended at 38th overall out of 41 competitors.

Earlier on Friday, Dutee failed to progress to the semifinals of the women's 100m event as well, finishing seventh in her heat with a timing of 11.54s.