Glasgow, July 30 -- India underlined its growing depth in men's javelin by sending all three of its throwers into the Commonwealth Games final on Thursday, even as Sri Lanka's Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage topped the qualification round to throw open the race for gold.
With Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, Rohit Yadav and Yash Vir Singh all progressing to Friday's 12-man final, India remained the only nation to qualify three athletes, bolstering its hopes of multiple medals in one of the marquee athletics events of the Games.
Pathirage emerged as the surprise leader of the qualification with a best throw of 82.84m, ahead of Grenada's Anderson Peters (81.29m), South Africa's Douw Smit (80.64m) and England's Ben East (80.38m). No athlete breache...