London: Indian ace discus thrower Krishna Poonia rolled out an average performance to finish seventh in the women's discus throw at the London Olympics at the Olympic Stadium here on Saturday.

Poonia, the Commonwealth Games gold medalist could not even touch her personal best of 64.76m and her best throw was 63.76.

Poonia, the only Indian at the finals after Seema Antil failed to qualify started off with a 62.42m in her first attempt, which placed her into the top eight before fouling the second.

She then came up with a 61.61m clearance in the third.

Out of the 12 finalists, only eight could make it through for the final three throws and Poonia was placed seventh at that stage.

But then things did not get any better for her and she fouled her fourth throw before clearing 63.62m in her fifth and 61.31m in her sixth and last attempts.

European champion Sandra Perkovic of Croatia won the gold with a throw of 69.11m while the silver and bronze went to Darya Pishchalnikova (67.56m) of Russia and reigning World champion Li Yanfeng (67.22m) of China respectively.

By Indian Sports News Network