Sudha Singh fails to qualify for the final of the women’s 3000m steeplechase event

India’s Sudha Singh crashed out of the London Olympics after failing to qualify for the final of the women’s 3000m steeplechase event, finishing a lowly 13th out of 15 runners in the first heat on Saturday.

Sudha, a gold medal winner in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, clocked 9:48.86s.

The top four runners from the first heat qualified for Monday’s final with Gesa Felicitas Krause of Germany, winning the race with a personal best timing of 9:24.91s.

Combined  Result Standings of Womens 3000m steeple chase

Rk	Bib	Athlete	Heat	Mark			+
1	1700	AYALEW Hiwot	3	9:24.01	Q		+
2	1945	KRAUSE Gesa Felicitas	1	9:24.91	Q	PB	+
3	1707	DIRO Etenesh	1	9:25.31	Q		+
4	1699	ASSEFA Sofia	2	9:25.42	Q		+
5	2902	ZARIPOVA Yuliya	3	9:25.68	Q		+
6	2340	NJOROGE Mercy Wanjiku	3	9:25.99	Q		+
7	1952	MOLDNER-SCHMIDT Antje	3	9:26.57	Q	SB	+
8	2328	CHEYWA Milcah Chemos	1	9:27.09	Q		+
9	2401	JELIZAROVA Polina	1	9:27.21	Q	NR	+
10	3069	GHRIBI Habiba	2	9:27.42	Q	SB	+
11	3278	COBURN Emma	2	9:27.51	Q		+
12	2858	GALKINA Gulnara	1	9:28.76	q		+
13	1646	DOMINGUEZ Marta	2	9:29.71	Q		+
14	3290	FRANEK Bridget	3	9:29.86	q		+
15	2723	CRUZ Clarisse	2	9:30.06	q	PB	+
16	2762	BOBOCEL Ancuta	3	9:31.06			+
17	1870	PARKER Barbara	1	9:32.07			+
18	2896	SIDORCHENKOVA ORLOVA Yelena	2	9:33.14			+
19	1381	LI Zhenzhu	1	9:34.29		SB	+
20	3118	INZIKURU Docus	3	9:35.29			+
21	1650	MARTIN Diana	1	9:35.77		PB	+
=22	3164	HORPYNYCH ZHUDINA Valentyna	2	9:37.90			+
=22	1072	LACAZE Genevieve	1	9:37.90		PB	+
24	2200	HINDS Korene	1	9:37.95		SB	+
25	2342	ROTICH Lydia Chebet	2	9:42.03			+
26	2468	EL OUALI ALAMI Salima	1	9:44.62			+
27	2111	REILLY Stephanie	2	9:44.77			+
28	3096	MINGIR Gulcan	2	9:47.35			+
29	3302	KIPP Shalaya	1	9:48.33			+
30	2691	KOWALSKA Katarzyna	2	9:48.60			+
31	2076	SINGH Sudha	1	9:48.86			+
32	1732	ERIKSSON Sandra	3	9:50.71			+
33	1863	MCCOLGAN Eilish	3	9:54.36			+
34	1185	KUDZELICH Sviatlana	1	9:54.77			+
35	2749	RAMOS Beverly	2	9:55.26			+
36	2467	BOUAASAYRIYA Kaltoum	3	9:58.77			+
37	2764	CASANDRA Cristina	2	9:58.83			+
38	1267	DANEKOVA Silviya	3	9:59.52			+
39	3189	SHMIDT Svitlana	3	10:01.09			+
40	3093	KAYA Ozlem	3	10:03.52			+
41	2700	SZLEZAK Matylda	3	10:08.84			+
42	1394	YIN Anna	2	10:09.10			+
43	1426	FIGUEROA Angela	2	10:25.60			+
44	3101	USLU Binnaz	1	10:31.00			+