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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | in-depth coverage > Olympic Games 2004 > Olympics: Indian relay quartet finishes seventh 11.11 IST 29th Aug 2004 By IndiaExpress Bureau The Indian women's 4x400m relay quartet ended up a distant seventh in the Olympic Stadium on Friday night to bring down the curtain on the country's participation in the Games in Athens on a disappointing note. The foursome of S Geeta, K M Beenamol, Chitra K Soman and Rajwinder Kaur came home in a slow 3 minutes, 28.51 seconds, much slower than the new national best they clocked last night -- 3:26.89 -- in reaching the final. The Indians made a surprising change to the line-up in the semi-final heats replaced Manjit Kaur, who ran a blistering anchor leg and enabled the squad to finish third and qualify for the final, with Geeta. Geeta ran the first leg in the final while Rajwinder Kaur, who began the race in the semis, did the last lap, with Beenamol and Chitra running the second and third legs. The gold went to USA, in 3:19.01, silver was grabbed by Russia (3:20.16) and Jamaica settled for the third place in (3:22.00). The Indians finished behind the three medal winners, Britain (3:25.12), Poland (3:25.32) and Romania (3:26.81). This was the last event for the 75-strong Indian contingent here after the exit of freestyle grapplers Sushil Kumar (60kg) and Sujit Mann (74kg) in the elimination rounds earlier in the day. The contingent came away with the lone silver medal in shooting won by Major Rajyawardhan Singh Rathore in the first week of the Games, thus making the tall pre-Games claims of the Indian officials nothing but empty boasts. in-depth coverage > Olympic Games 2004 > |
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