10 Finals, 1 Medal and 10 Facts About India in 15 World Athletics Championships

Anju Bobby George won the only medal ever (till 2017) by an Indian in 2003 World Championships in Athletics held at Paris, France. She entered the finals again after 2 editions. 6 more Indians achieved the feat of reaching the finals, but none could emulate her medal effort even in overall 15 appearances by Indians at World Athletics Championships. Check results of all Indians in all editions till the end of 2017 World Athletics Championships. Also, see details of every finalist and 10 special facts about Indian athletes in World Championships.

World Athletics Championships Final Facts for Indians
10 Finals for Indians (3 Vikas Gowda, 2: Anju Bobby George, 1: Inderjeet Singh, Davinder Singh Kang, Lalita Babar, Neelam Jaswant Singh, Mayookha Johny)

1. Only medal in 2003 (Women’s Long Jump: Anju Bobby George)
2. 5 Finalists each from Men’s and Women’s Group.
3. 3 Finals by Vikas Gowda is the maximum by any Indian.
4. Lalita Babar is the only Indian to enter finals of Track event. All other 9 athletes entered finals of Field events.
5. India has
6. 7 Athletes have made 10 times Indian presence in Finals.
7. 3 Athletes reached semifinals (all in Track events)
8. 1st Indian Athlete to reach beyond Prelims: PT Usha 1987 400m Hurdles Semis
9. 2015 saw three Indians in finals.
10. 4 Finalists in Discus Throw, 3 in Long Jump (All women), 1 each in Women’s 3000 m steeplechase, Men’s Shot Put and Javelin Throw.

Indian Results in Finals or Semifinals
Women’s (4 Field Events, 1 Track) FINALS

2003 Long Jump: Anju Bobby George – Bronze
2003 Discus Throw: Neelam Jaswant Singh – 12th
2007 Long Jump: Anju Bobby George – 9th
2011 Long Jump: Mayookha Johny – 9th
2015 3000 m steeplechase: Lalita Babar

Men’s (5 Field Events)

2011 Discus Throw: Vikas Gowda 7 in FINAL
2013 Discus Throw: Vikas Gowda 7 in FINAL
2015 Discus Throw: Vikas Gowda 9 in FINAL
2015 Shot Put: Inderjeet Singh 11th in FINAL
2017 Javelin Throw: Davinder Singh Kang 12th in Final

Semifinals

1987 400m Hurdles PT Usha 6th
2011 800m Tintu Luka 6th
2017 400m Nirmala Sheoran 22nd

Other Facts

1. Two Field events in same championship – 2011 Mayookha Johny (Long Jump and Triple Jump)
2. Two Events in Different Editions: Shakti Singh – Discus Throw in 1995, 1997 and Shot Put in 1999
4. No Participants in 2005 Championships
5: Semifinals: 3 (PT Usha, Nirmala Sheoran, Tintu Luka)
6. 9 Track Events and 4 Field Events each for Indian Men and Women in 14 Editions.

Women’s Track Events

9 Track events, 4 Field Events and Heptathalon
Track
1. Marathon (3 in 2 editions)
2. 100 metres (1)
3. 400 metres (2 in 2 editions)
4. 4 × 400 metres relay (5 teams in 5 editions)
5. 400 metre Hurdles (1)
6. 800m (2 in 3 editions)
7. 3000 metres Steeplechase (2 in 2 editions)
8. 5000m (1)
9. 20 Km Walk (2 in 3 editions, 1 in 3)
Field
1. Long jump (3 in 4 editions, 1 in 2 FINALs and Bronze)
2. Triple jump (1)
3. Discus Throw (4 in 6 editions, 1 in 3)
4. Javelin Throw (2 in 2 editions)
Heptathalon Women’s
3 in 3 editions

Marathon

1. 2015 O. P. Jaisha (18), Sudha Singh (19)
2. 2017 Monika Athare 64th

Only one Participant

400m Hurdles: 1987 PT Usha 55.89 6th in Heat 2 semifinals
5000m: 1999 Sunita Rani 15:41.81 finished 10th in Heat
100 metres 2017 Dutee Chand 38th 12.07

400m:

1. 1987 PT Usha (DNS)
2. Nirmala Sheoran Semifinals 22nd 53.07

4x400m

1. 1991 Finished last in Heat 2 (Ashwini Nachappa, Alphonsa Rayen, Sylvina Cecil Pais, Saramma Kutty)
2. 2003 3:42.25 Finished last in Heat 1 (Kalpana Reddy, Sathi Geetha, Sagardeep Kaur, Manjeet Kaur)
3. 2013 15th 3:38.81 (Nirmala, Tintu Luka, Anu Mariam Jose, M. R. Poovamma)
4. 2015 3:29.08 SB 8th in Heat (Tintu Luka, M. R. Poovamma, Debasree Majumdar, Jisna Mathew)
5. 2017 Disqualified (Anilda Thomas, Anu Raghavan, Jauna Murmu, Jisna Mathew, M. R. Poovamma, Nirmala Sheoran)

800m

1. 1993 Shiny Abraham-Wilson 2:06.64 Finished 6th in Heat 2
2. 2011 Tintu Luka 2:00.95 6th SB SEMIFINALS
3. 2015 Tintu Lukka 2:00.95 SB 7th in Heat

3000m steeplechase

1. 2013 Sudha Singh 9:51.05 23rd
2. 2015 Lalita Babar 9:29.64 8 in FINAL

20 kilometres walk

1. 2013 Khushbir Kaur 1:34:28 NR 39th
2. 2015 Khushbir Kaur (37), Sapana Sapana (DQ)
3. 2017 Khushbir Kaur (42nd)

Women’s Field Events
Long jump

1. 1983 Mercy Mathews-Kuttan finished with No Mark in Group B.
2. 2003 Anju Bobby George 6.59m BRONZE
3. 2007 Anju Bobby George 6.53 finished 9th in FINAL
4. 2011 Mayookha Johny Long Jump 9th in FINAL with 6.37 (6.53 in Prelims)

Triple jump: 2011 Mayookha Johny 13.99 19
Discus Throw: ONE FINAL

1. 1999 Neelam Jaswant Singh 57.05 m finished 14th in Qualification Group B
2. 2001 Neelam Jaswant Singh 56.52m finished 10th in Qualification Group B
3. 2003 Neelam Jaswant Singh 57.92m finished 12th in FINAL
4. 2007 Krishna Poonia 57.17 finished 11th in Group B
5. 2009 Seema Antil 15 in Qualification
6. 2009 Krishna Poonia 28 in Qualification
7. 2011 Harwant Kaur 56.49 21st

Javelin Throw:

1. 1999 Gurmeet Kaur 51.97 m 14th in Qualification Group A
2. 2017 Annu Rani 59.93 20th

Women’s Combined Event
Heptathlon:

1. 2001 Pramila Ganapathy 15th
2. 2009 Susmita Singha Roy 26 (out of 29)
3. 2017 Swapna Barman 26th

Men’s Track Events

9 Track events and 4 Field Events
Track
1. Marathon (2 in 2 editions)
2. 110 metres hurdles (1)
3. 400 metres (1)
4. 4 × 400 metres relay (1)
5. 3000 metres Steeplechase (1)
6. 5000m (3 in 3 editions)
7. 10,000 metres (1)
8. 20 Km Walk (9 in 6 editions, 3 in 2 editions)
9. 50 kilometres walk (3 in 2 editions, 1 in 2)
Field
1. Discus Throw (2 in 6 editions, 1 in 4)
2. Shot Put (3 in 3 editions)
3. Triple Jump (1 in 3 editions)
4. Javelin Throw (2 in 1 edition)

Marathon

1. 1987 Hari Singh 2:34:20 42nd
2. 2017 Gopi Thonakal 28th

1 in 1 Event Each

110 metres hurdles 2017 Siddhant Thingalaya 31st
4 × 400 metres relay 2017: (Arokia Rajiv, Kunhu Muhammed, Mohammad Anas, Mohan Kumar Raja, Amoj Jacob, Sachin Roby) 10th in Heat
400 metres: 2017 Mohammad Anas 33rd
Men’s 3000 metres Steeplechase 1991: Deena Ram 9:05:21 11th in Heat 2
10,000 metres: 2009 Surendra Kumar Singh 28:35.51 SB 19 (out of 31)

5000m

1. 1993 Bahadur Prasad 13:53.39 9th in Heat
2. 1995 Bahadur Prasad 14:09.51 13th in Heat
3. 2017 Govindan Lakshmanan 31st

20 Km Walk

1. 1983 Chand Ram finished 42nd 1:31:32
2. 2011 Gurmeet Singh 30th 1:26.34
3. 2011 Babubhai Panocha 31st 1:26.53
4. 2013 Gurmeet Singh (33), Chandan Singh (34), Irfan Kolothum Thodi (DQ)
5. 2015 Gurmeet Singh (35), Chandan Singh (41), Baljinder Singh (Did not finish)
6. 2017 Irfan Kolothum Thodi (23), Ganapathi Krishnan, Devender Singh

50 kilometres walk

1. 2013 Basanta Bahadur Rana (33), Sandeep Kumar (DQ)
2. 2015 Sandeep Kumar (26) SB, Manish Singh (27) PB

Men’s Field Events
Discus Throw

1. 1993 Shakti Singh 48.78m Finished 14th in Qualification Group
2. 1997 Shakti Singh 56.28m Finished 18th in Qualification Group
3. 2007 Vikas Gowda 61.22 9th in Group A
4. 2011 Vikas Gowda 64.05 7 in FINAL
5. 2013 Vikas Gowda 64.03 7 in FINAL
6. 2015 Vikas Gowda 63.86 7 q 62.24 9th in FINAL

Shot Put

1. 1999 Shakti Singh 18.58m Finished 13th in Qualification Group A
2. 2007 Navpreet Singh 19/35 11th in Group A
3. 2011 Om Prakash Singh 23 19.29
4. 2015 Inderjeet Singh 20.47 8 q, 19.52 11th in FINAL

Triple Jump

1. 2007 Renjith Maheshwary 16.38 13th in Group A
2. 2011 Renjith Maheshwary No Marks
3. 2013 Renjith Maheshwary 16.63 13th

Javelin Throw

1. 2017 Davinder Singh Kang (FINAL) 12th (out of 13) 80.02
2. 2017 Neeraj Chopra (15th Qualification)