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13th JHARKHAND STATE CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS-2021
13th JHARKHAND STATE CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS-2021 VENUE:- GARHWA DATE:- 23/12/2021 Registration link https://forms.gle/8DgThHC9Ky5ZH2Az8Read More
PRIYANKA GOSWAMI, SANDEEP KUMAR GET TO OLYMPICS AND WORLDS WITH NATIONAL RECORDS
Ranchi, February 13: Sandeep Kumar (Haryana) and Priyanka Goswami (Uttar Pradesh) became the first Indian athletes to qualify for next year’s World Athletics Championships Oregon22 when they broke the men and women’s 20km Race Walk National Records respectively on the 1km loop on the Morabadi Road here today. Together with Rahul Kumar, who finished second in the men’s event, they also qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games to be held later this year. Both men are athletes from the Army Sports Institute They took the number of Indian race walkers who have made the grade to five, joining KT Irfan and Bhawana Jat. Their efforts have raised the number of Indian qualifiers to 14 so far. The 34-year-old Sandeep Kumar, who competed in the 50km Race Walk in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, was just outside the Olympic qualifying standard (1:21:00) despite winning here last year in 1:21:34. He endured a year’s wait to attain his primary target. With Rahul hot on his heels through the first half of the race, he opened up the lead before the 15km mark. Irfan (Kerala) trailed the leaders by nearly three seconds at the halfway stage dropped out of theRead More