Indian race walker Ram Baboo set a new national record in the men's 35 km at the Dudinska 50 2023 meet in Dudince, Slovakia on Saturday. Even after achieving a new record he still narrowly fell short of the qualifying mark for the Budapest 2023 world championships by 16 seconds.
At the National Championships earlier this month, Akshdeep Singh and Priyanka Goswami had already qualified for the World Championships and the Paris Olympics.
Tokyo Olympian Priyanka Goswami, who won the 10,000m race walk silver medal at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, finished first in the women's 20km race walk event in Morabadi with a time of 1:28:50.
Mansi Negi who hails from a village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand set a new national record by completing the 10,000 metres race walking in 47:30.94 minutes in the championship. Suraj Panwar, a young athlete from the state also won gold in the championship.
The gold medal was won by Canada's Evan Dunfee, who clocked the timings of 38:36.37, which is a new Commonwealth Games record and his personal best as well
Indian athlete Priyanka Goswami clinched a silver medal for the country after finishing at second position in the final of the women's 10,000 m race walk at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Saturday
Indian athlete Priyanka Goswami clinched a silver medal for the country after finishing at second position in the final of the women's 10,000 m race walk at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Saturday.
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Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], April 17 (ANI): Haryana race walkers Sandeep Kumar and Ravina, who had both produced good performances in the World Athletics Race Walking Championships last month, sustained their good form to claim the men's and women's 20Km titles on the opening day of the nint
London [UK], March 21 (ANI): The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Monday announced that the Russian race walker Yelena Lashmanova has been banned for two years for the use of prohibited substances, a violation of World Athletics anti-doping rules.