Lalita Babar fiinished with a timing of 9:22:74, nearly three seconds more than time taken by her in the heats. Lalita Babar feels she could have bettered her timing after the long distance Indian runner capped her fairy-tale journey in the Rio Olympics with a top-10 finish in the 3000m steeplechase final, here on Monday. Overall, I'm happy with a top-10 finish but could have bettered my timing. I am not happy with the performance as I feel could have bettered my heat performance," said Lalita. Kenyan-born Ruth Jebeth of Bahrain won the gold in 8:59.75s which is less than a second outside the world record timing of 8:58.81s.

Source: dna August 15, 2016 17:03 UTC