New Delhi: India's ace long jumper Anju Bobby George failed to qualify for the finals after leaping far below the benchmark in the women's event at the 11th Asian World Indoor Championships at Moscow on Saturday.
Anju's best jump was 6.34 metres while the qualifying mark was 6.55 or the best eight from the Group A and B.
The lanky Keralite could have made it to the finals had she repeated her Federation Cup performance of the last week when she crossed 6.47m which was better than Cuban Savigne Yargelis' 6.46m mark, the eighth best to manage a berth among the finalists.
Anju leaped 6.16m in her first attempt and subsequently improved it but only to slip to 6.33m in the third chance.
Anju, who now proceeds to Melbourne for the Commonwealth Games, will have to pull her socks to hope for laurels Down Under.
Kotova Tatyana of Russia and Naide Gomes of Portugal were the top finishers in the quaifiers with 6.73m as the best performance.
Others who made to the finals were Madison Tianna of USA (6.60m), Udmurtova Oksana of Russia (6.58m), Pilatou Stiliani of Greece (6.55m), Montaner Concepcion of Spain (6.55m) and Radevica Ineta of Latvia (6.51m).
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