Priyanka Goswami, Akashdeep Singh Qualify for World Championships

Ranchi: Tokyo Olympian Priyanka  Goswami and Akashdeep Singh qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics  and World Athletics Championships  2023 after meeting the qualification  mark in the women’s and men’s 20km  race walk, respectively, at the National  Open Race Walking Championships
on Tuesday. In the women’s 20km race walk event  in Morabadi, Priyanka clocked 1:28:50s to beat the qualifying standard of 1:29.20s set for the
Athletics Worlds in Budapest and  Paris Olympics and clinched the top  spot. While the Commonwealth Games  silver medallist sealed a spot in the two  marquee events but fell short of five seconds to break her own national  record of 1:28.45s. Another Tokyo Olympian Bhawna Jat  clocked 1:29.44s to bag the silver medal  but missed out on the quota places.  Sonal Sukhwal won the bronze medal  with a 1:31.03 timing. In the men’s 20km event, Akshdeep  clocked 1:19.55 seconds and breached  the 1:20.10 qualification mark to qualify for both events. In the process,  he beat the national record of 1:20:16,  set by Sandeep Kumar at the 2021  National Race Walking Championships  at Ranchi. On the other hand, Suraj Panwar came
close to qualifying for the Worlds and  Paris Olympics but narrowly missed the  berth by 0.01s after clocking 1:20.11s.

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