CHENNAI: Punjab’s worldwide race walker, Manju Rani, had an excellent run on the eleventh version of the Nationwide Open Race Strolling Competitors. The day after profitable gold within the ladies’s 20km, she dominated the 10km on Wednesday to brighten her probability to compete within the inaugural marathon race strolling blended relay that may function on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games.

Manju, 24, gold medal profitable time in 10km was 45:20.00. The promising race walker from Punjab had paired with Ram Babu to win bronze within the 35km blended relay race strolling group occasion on the Hangzhou Asian Video games.

Manju was elated to have gained back-to-back gold medals on the nationwide competitors in Chandigarh. “My major focus would be the blended relay occasion this yr and I hope to characterize India on the Olympic Video games, ” Manju stated after profitable gold within the ladies’s 10km on Wednesday. “

The senior 10km race stroll was included within the programme by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to pick out potential athletes for the nationwide group that may compete on the April 20-21 World Athletics Race Stroll Crew Championships to be held in Antalya, Turkey.

Through the Turkey competitors, high 22 groups will get computerized qualification for the Olympic Video games. The ultimate collection of the nationwide group for Turkey will probably be executed in March.

Within the males’s 10km occasion, Sahil of Punjab outclassed extra skilled athletes to assert gold. Sahil, 22, a college-going pupil from Patiala clocked 39:25.00. He had completed fifth within the males’s 20km race stroll on Tuesday.

Paramjeet Singh Bisht of Uttarakhand was second with a time of 39:36.00, whereas Asian bronze medalist Vikash Singh of Delhi was third with a time of 39:47.00.

Goa’s Vijay Omkar Vishwakaram gained the boys’s 35 km race with a time of two:39:19.00, whereas the ladies’s 35km gold went to Bandana Patel of Uttar Pradesh, whose gold-medal profitable time was 3:11:06.00.

Outcomes: Sahil (Punjab) 39:25.00, Paramjeet Singh Bisht (Uttarakhand) 39:36.00, Vikash Singh (Delhi) 39:47.00

35km: Vijay Omkar Vishwakaram (Goa) 2:39:19.00, Sagar Satish Chandra (Gujarat) 2:44:22.00, Devender Singh (Haryana) 2:44:58.00.

Girls: 10km: Manju Rani (Punjab) 45:20.00, Payal (Uttarakhand) 46:04.00, Mokavi Muthurathinam (Tamil Nadu) 46:10.00.

35km: Bandana Patel (Uttar Pradesh) 3:11:06.00, Pooja Kumari (Punjab) 3:17:51.00, Komal (Haryana) 3:23:06.00.