Punjab’s worldwide race walker, Manju Rani, had run on the eleventh version of the Nationwide Open Race Strolling Competitors. The day after successful gold within the girls’s 20km, she dominated the senior girls’s 10km on Wednesday to brighten her likelihood to compete within the inaugural marathon race strolling combined relay that can function on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games.
Manju, 24, gold medal successful time in 10km was 45:20.00. The promising Punjab feminine race walker had paired with Ram Babu to win bronze within the 35km combined relay crew occasion on the Hangzhou Asian Video games.
Manju was elated to have received back-to-back gold medals on the nationwide competitors in Chandigarh. “My most important focus would be the combined relay occasion this 12 months and I hope to symbolize India on the Olympic Video games,” Manju mentioned after successful gold within the girls’s 10km on Wednesday.
The senior 10km race stroll was included within the programme by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to pick out potential athletes for the nationwide crew that can compete on the April 20-21 World Athletics Race Stroll Staff Championships to be held in Antalya, Turkey. Through the Turkey competitors, high 22 groups will get computerized qualification for the Olympic Video games. The ultimate number of the nationwide crew for Turkey shall be carried out in March.
Within the males’s 10km occasion, Sahil of Punjab outclassed extra skilled athletes to assert gold. Sahil, 22, a university going scholar from Patiala clocked 39:25.00. He had completed fifth within the males’s 20km race stroll on Tuesday.
Paramjeet Singh Bisht of Uttarakhand was second with a time of 39:36.00, whereas Asian bronze medalist Vikash Singh of Delhi was third with a time of 39:47.00.
Goa’s Vijay Omkar Vishwakaram received the boys’s 35 km race with a time of two:39:19.00, whereas the ladies’s 35km gold went to Bandana Patel of Uttar Pradesh, whose gold-medal successful time was 3:11:06.00.
Outcomes: Sahil (Punjab) 39:25.00, Paramjeet Singh Bisht (Uttarakhand) 39:36.00, Vikash Singh (Delhi) 39:47.00
35km: Vijay Omkar Vishwakaram (Goa) 2:39:19.00, Sagar Satish Chandra (Gujarat) 2:44:22.00, Devender Singh (Haryana) 2:44:58.00.
Ladies: 10km: Manju Rani (Punjab) 45:20.00, Payal (Uttarakhand) 46:04.00, Mokavi Muthurathinam (Tamil Nadu) 46:10.00.
35km: Bandana Patel (Uttar Pradesh) 3:11:06.00, Pooja Kumari (Punjab) 3:17:51.00, Komal (Haryana) 3:23:06.00.