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Om Prakash registers ‘no mark’

DOHA: Om Prakash Singh failed to record a legal throw and ended up with a ’no mark’ against his name in the men’s shot put event of the Qatar Super Grand Prix athletics meet here on Friday.

The 22-year-old Indian, who had only last Sunday achieved a personal best of 19.74 metres in the Indian Grand Prix meet at Kochi, reeled off four foul throws (all competitors had just four attempts instead of six) to end outside the official placings in the 10-man field.

The top four did not commit a single foul.

Om Prakash joined two other Indian shot putters who had failed to record a mark in major competitions during the past decade, Bahadur Singh Sagoo (2004 Athens Olympics) and Navpreet Singh (2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games).

World champion Reese Hoffa (US), who finished seventh in the Beijing Games, edged Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski of Poland (21.22m) with a world-leading throw of 21.64, in the third and fourth rounds, to bag the gold.

Saudi Arabian Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Hebshi set an Asian record of 21.13 for the bronze. Al-Hebshi held the previous record 20.61m, set in 2007.

Twelve other events also produced world-leading marks, including 2.05m by Croatia’s woman high jumper Blanka Vlasic, 7:58.85 by Kenyan Ezekiel Kemboi in men’s 3000m steeplechase and 1:43.09 by Sudan’s Abubaker Kaki Khamis in men’s 800 metres.

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