BUDAPEST: Parul Chaudhary became only the second Indian female athlete to qualify for the final of a track event at the World Athletics Championships as she finished fifth in her 3000m steeplechase heat race in Bu-dapest on Wednesday.
The 28-year-old Chaudhary clocked a personal best time of 9 minutes 24.29 seconds to finish fifth in heat number two and qualify for Sunday's final. The top five finishers in all the three heats qualified for the final round.
Chaudhary's earlier personal best was 9:29.51 which she had clocked in an event in USA in May this year.
Before Chaudhary, Lalita Babar, also a 3000m steeplechaser, was the lone Indian woman to have qualified for the final round of a track event in the World Championships. Agencies
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