Racewalker Priyanka Goswami gained silver at 2022 Commonwealth Video games. Picture credit score: Screengrab from SonyLiv
Unheralded Akshdeep Singh clinched the boys’s 20km occasion gold with a shocking nationwide document time to qualify for this yr’s World Championships in addition to the 2024 Paris Olympics on the opening day of the Nationwide Open Race Strolling Championships on Tuesday.
The 22-year-old from Punjab clocked 1 hour 19 minutes and 55 seconds to obliterate the sooner nationwide document of 1:20:16 which was within the identify of veteran Sandeep Kumar who completed a lowly seventh with 1:23.28.
The boys’s 20km race stroll qualifying time for each the World Championships to be held in Budapest in August and 2024 Olympics is 1:20:10.
Earlier than Tuesday’s shock outcome, Akshdeep’s private finest was 1:26:10 which he had clocked on the Inter-College Championships at Moodbidri in Karnataka early final yr. Ladies’s 20km occasion nationwide document holder Priyanka Goswami expectedly gained gold with a time of 1:28:50 to additionally qualify for each the World Championships and 2024 Olympics. Her nationwide document stands at 1:28:45 which she had set in 2021.
The ladies’s 20km race stroll qualifying time for each the World Championships to be held in Budapest in August and 2024 Olympics is 1:29:20.
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