Olympics-bound Bhawana named in Indian team for Asian 20km Race Walk C’ships

Bhawana Jat, who recently made the cut for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has been named in the Indian team for the Asian 20km Race Walk Championships.

Published : Feb 17, 2020 21:02 IST , New Delhi

Bhawana qualified for Tokyo Olympics in 20km race walk after pulling off a shock win with a national record time at the National Championships in Ranchi on Saturday.
Bhawana qualified for Tokyo Olympics in 20km race walk after pulling off a shock win with a national record time at the National Championships in Ranchi on Saturday.
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Bhawana qualified for Tokyo Olympics in 20km race walk after pulling off a shock win with a national record time at the National Championships in Ranchi on Saturday.

Bhawana Jat, who recently made the cut for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, was on Monday named in the 13-member Indian team for the Asian 20km Race Walk Championships, to be held in Nomi, Japan on March 15.

Bhawana, who qualified for Tokyo Olympics in 20km race walk after pulling off a shock win with a national record time at the National Championships in Ranchi on Saturday, is one of the five women named for the Asian event.

Priyanka Goswami, Karamjit Kaur, Ravina and Sonal Sukhwal were the other four women’s race walkers named for the Asian Championships.

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Bhawana, 23, clocked 1 hour 29 minutes and 54 seconds, well inside the Olympic qualification time of 1:31:00, to win the gold. She obliterated the two-year-old national record of 1:31:29 which was in the name of Delhi’s Baby Soumya.

Meanwhile the eight-member men’s team has Ranchi National Championships winner Sandeep Kumar, silver medallist Rahul and bronze winner Vikash Singh, besides Devender Singh, Ganapathi Krishnan, Chandan Singh, Ek Nath Turambekar and K T Irfan in it.

Irfan, who pulled out midway into the competition in Ranchi citing muscle cramps, has been included in the team as he has already qualified for the Olympics.

The Indian team was picked by the selection committee of the Athletics Federation of India on the basis of performance in the National Open Race Walking Championships held on February 15 and 16 in Ranchi.

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