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Miss: One less gold for sprint queen

Sri Lanka's sprinter queen Susantika Jayasinghe missed out on a chance to add the 200-metre gold to the 100m that she had won.

She pulled out of the athletics race event because of a hamstring injury.

Left: Sri Lanka's Susanthika Jayasinghe (Centre) finished first ahead of Lyubov Perepelova ( 2nd-Left) of Uzbekistan and China's Qin Wangqing (far Left) during the women's 100m final. Jayasinghe won the race with a time of 11.15 seconds ahead of Perepelova in second place and Qin in third. Picture source: AFP

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