Ranchi: Juned Khan of Haryana
and Ramandeep Kaur of Punjab rewrote the men's and women's 35km race walk
national records respectively, en route to winning top honours at the ninth
Indian Open Race Walking Competition here on Sunday.
The 23-year-old Ramandeep
clocked 3:00.04s and clipped more than 13 minutes from Priyanka Goswami's
earlier national record of 3:13.19s, set in the World Athletics Race Walking
Championships in Muscat last month.
Goswami did not take part in
the 35km event on Sunday. She had taken part in the 20km event on Saturday but
could not finish the race.
Ramdeep's Punjab team-mate
Manju also came inside Goswami's earlier national mark to take the silver in
3:07.49s.
In the men's 35km event,
22-year-old Juned pulled away from Ram Baboo and Chandan Singh after the 20km
mark to lower the national record by five minutes, clocking 2:40.16s.
Eknath Sambhaji Turambekar,
who held the earlier national record of 2:45.17s, was among the four who were
bunched in the lead till the 20km mark but dropped out after being second with
10km to go.
The 35km race walk event was
introduced in India only last year in the wake of World Athletics' decision to
do away with the 50km event after the Tokyo Olympics.
Uttarakhand's Sachin Bohra edged out Gujarat's Rohit Kumar Yadav by a mere second to win the men's U-20 10km crown with a time of 43:12s. (PTI)
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