Anju climbs to seventh spot in IAAF rankings

Anju Bobby George's gold medal winning leap at the Asian Athletics Championship in Incheon, Korea, has lifted her to seventh place in the women's long jump rankings of the International Association of Athletics Federations.

Anju, who claimed gold with a jump of 6.65 metres at the championship on Sunday, climbed two spots in the latest rankings released by IAAF on Monday.

She has also booked a spot at the World Athletics Finals in Monaco scheduled for September 9-10.

The current season has not been the best for the lanky Keralite, who had finished fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki last month with her season's best jump of 6.66m.

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Anju, the first Indian to win a medal at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, had finished outside the medals bracket at the meets in Stockholm and Doha earlier this year.

In the latest rankings, the Russian trio of Tatiana Kotova, Irina Simagina and Tatyana Lebedeva hold on to the first three spots. Helsinki gold medallist Tiana Madison of the United States and her compatriot Grace Upshaw occupy the next two places.