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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox country at games<br />
| IAAF = IND<br />
| fedname = [[Athletics Federation of India]]<br />
| year = 2009<br />
| games = World Championships in Athletics<br />
| location = [[Berlin]]<br />
| competitors = 6<br />
| gold = 0<br />
| silver = 0<br />
| bronze = 0<br />
| rank = <br />
| previous = [[India at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics|2007]]<br />
| next = [[India at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics|2011]]<br />
| website = {{URL|http://indianathletics.org/}}<br />
}}<br />
'''[[India]]'''' participated in the '''[[2009 World Championships in Athletics]]''' held at [[Berlin]] from 15–23 August. Six Indian athletes had qualified for the Championships, but none of them won any medal. Only [[Babubhai Panucha]], who competed in the 20&nbsp;km walk category managed to establish a new National record clocking a time of 1:23:06 beating his own previous record time.<br />
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[[Athletics Federation of India]] had sent a team of six athletes for the competition, which is ranked only next to the [[Olympics]] and the '''[[FIFA World Cup]]''' in terms of popularity as a major global sporting event. Selected athletes have achieved one of the competition's [[2009 World Championships in Athletics qualification standards|qualifying standards]].<ref>[http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=52561.html Indian names 6 for Berlin World Champs]. [[IAAF]] (2009-08-05). Retrieved on 2009-08-05.</ref><br />
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==Team selection==<br />
{{col-begin|width=80%}}<br />
{{col-2}}<br />
;Track and road events<br />
{|class=wikitable style="font-size:100%"<br />
|-<br />
!rowspan=2|Event<br />
!colspan=2|Athletes<br />
|-<br />
!Men<br />
!Women<br />
|-<br />
|[[10,000 metres]]<br />
|[[Surendra Kumar Singh]]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[[400 metres hurdles]]<br />
|[[Joseph Abraham]]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[[20 km race walk]]<br />
|[[Babubhai Panucha]]<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
{{col-2}}<br />
<br />
;Field and combined events<br />
{|class=wikitable style="font-size:100%"<br />
|-<br />
!rowspan=2|Event<br />
!colspan=2|Athletes<br />
|-<br />
!Men<br />
!Women<br />
|-<br />
|[[Discus throw]]<br />
|<br />
|[[Krishna Poonia]]<br>[[Seema Antil]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Heptathlon]]<br />
|align=center| —<br />
|[[Susmita Singha Roy]]<br />
|}<br />
{{col-2}}<br />
{{col-end}}<br />
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==Results==<br />
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===Men===<br />
{|class="wikitable" border="1" style="font-size:100%"<br />
|-<br />
!rowspan="2"|Event<br />
!rowspan="2"|Athletes<br />
!colspan="2"|Heat Round 1<br />
!colspan="2"|Heat Round 2<br />
!colspan="2"|Semifinal<br />
!colspan="2"|Final<br />
|-<br />
!Result<br />
!Rank<br />
!Result<br />
!Rank<br />
!Result<br />
!Rank<br />
!Result<br />
!Rank<br />
|-<br />
|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres|10,000 m]]<br />
|[[Surendra Kumar Singh]]<br />
|align=center colspan="6"|No qualifying rounds held<br />
|align=center|28:35.51 '''SB''' <br />
|align=center|19 (out of 31)<br />
|-<br />
|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles|400 m hurdles]]<br />
|[[Joseph Abraham]]<br />
|align=center colspan=2|Disqualified<br />
|align=center colspan=6|Did not advance<br />
|-<br />
|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk|20 km walk]]<br />
|[[Babubhai Panucha]]<br />
|align=center colspan="6"|No qualifying rounds held<br />
|align=center|1:23:06 '''NR''' <br />
|align=center|20 (out of 50)<br />
|}<br />
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===Women===<br />
{|class="wikitable" border="1" style="font-size:100%"<br />
|-<br />
!rowspan="2"|Event<br />
!rowspan="2"|Athletes<br />
!colspan="2"|Qualification<br />
!colspan="2"|Final<br />
|-<br />
!Result<br />
!Rank<br />
!Result<br />
!Rank<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan=2|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw|Discus throw]]<br />
|[[Krishna Poonia]]<br />
|align=center|X X 56.75<br />
|align=center|28<br />
|align=center colspan=2|Did not Qualify<br />
|-<br />
|[[Seema Antil]]<br />
|align=center|59.85 X X<br />
|align=center|15<br />
|align=center colspan=2|Did not Qualify<br />
|-<br />
|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon|Heptathlon]]<br />
|[[Susmita Singha Roy]]<br />
|align=center colspan="2"|<br />
|align=center|4,983<br />
|align=center|26 (out of 29)<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090816191648/http://berlin.iaaf.org/index.html Official competition website]<br />
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{{Nations at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics}}<br />
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[[Category:Nations at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics]]<br />
[[Category:2009 in Indian sport|World Championships in Athletics]]<br />
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