CHANDIGARH: Uttarakhand’s Suraj Panwar has achieved the qualifying commonplace for the Paris 2024 Olympics within the males’s 20km race stroll occasion on the Indian Open Race Strolling Competitors, right here on Tuesday.

Panwar clocked one hour, 19 minutes and 43 seconds (1:19:43.08) to win the silver medal. The boys’s 20km race strolling qualifying commonplace for the Paris 2024 Olympics is 1:20:10.

Akshdeep Singh, who met the Paris qualification final yr, efficiently defended his title with the timing of 1:19:37.56, bettering his personal nationwide document of 1:19:55.00s, which he set in the course of the Nationals final yr in February.

Servin claimed the bronze medal on Tuesday with a timing of 1:20:29 and fell wanting breaching the entry commonplace for Paris 2024.

The 23-year-old is the fourth Indian to breach the entry commonplace for the Paris 2024 Olympics within the males’s 20km race stroll occasion after Akashdeep, Vikas Singh and Paramjeet Bisht.

However a rustic can have solely three racewalkers in an occasion on the Paris 2024 and now the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has the ultimate say on who among the many 4 will probably be heading to Pairs.

In the meantime, within the girls’s occasion, Manju Rani of Punjab received the gold medal with a private finest timing of 1:34:16.67. Payal (1:34:45.10) and Munita Prajapati (1:35:36.16) take silver and bronze medals, respectively.

The 35km males’s and ladies’s races will probably be held on Wednesday.