Surname: India’s 20K walker Vikash Singh and Paramjeet Singh Bisht qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the 2023 World Championships during the Asian Championships here on Sunday.
Vikash and Paramjeet finished second and third in the men’s open category of the Asian 20K Walking Championships with 1:20:05s and 1:20:08s, respectively, behind Qian Haifeng (1:19:09) of China.
The qualifying mark for both the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and the 2023 World Athletics Championships in August in Budapest, Hungary is 1:20:10, which the two Indians just undercut.
Akshdeep Singh, who has already qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics and the 2023 World Athletics Championships by winning the national championships last month, took gold in the official competitor category with a time of 1:20:57 and finished fifth in the overall rating.
According to the competition rules, a country can send athletes in the open categories – besides the official registration – to present them, but their performance will not be counted as official.
India had entered four male and three female walkers in the open category in addition to the two official entries – one male and one female – in the continental event.
Suraj Panwar and Hardeep, the other two Indians in the open category, ran 1:22:31 and 1:25:38, respectively.
Priyanka Goswami, who also previously qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics and 2023 World Athletics Championships by winning the national championships last month, took bronze in the women’s official competitor category with a time of 1:32:27 and finished fourth overall.
Munita Ptajapati and Bhawna Jat, with 1:33:22 and 1:36:20 respectively in the open category, missed the Olympic and World Championship qualifying mark of 1:29:20 by a wide margin.
The third Indian woman in the open category, Sonal Sukhwal, did not start.
India now has four walkers who have qualified for both the 2024 Olympics and the World Championships.
(This report was published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wirefeed. Aside from the headline, the copy of ABP Live has not been edited.)
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