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Indians fail to impress at Qosanov Memorial Athletics Meet in Kazakhstan

Discus thrower Navjeet Kaur Dhillon failed to impress, though she won a gold, in the Qosanov Memorial Athletics Meet here on Saturday, putting a question mark over her Commonwealth Games selection.

Dhillon won the event with a best throw of 56.24m. She had won gold in the National Inter-State Championships (June 10-14) in Chennai with a best effort of 55.67m.

Dhillon was included in the 36-member Indian athletics team on June 16, with the rider of “subject to guidelines achieved in Kazakhstan” against her name. The CWG qualifying guidelines prepared by Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is 58.00m for women’s discus throw.

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