Gurmeet Singh created history by becoming the first Indian athlete to clinch a gold medal in the Asian 20km race walk championships as he won the men’s event of the season.
Flash points
- Gurmeet finished the race in 1 hour 20 minutes and 29 seconds clinching the Gold medal
- Japan’s Isamu Fujisawa ended up with a silver medal in 1:20:49 in a close fight in the last 5km with Gurmeet
- Kazakhstan’s Georgiy Sheiko won the bronze medal in 1:21:52
- Gurmeet won the Asian championship there by confirming his berth to Rio Olympics
- 9 Indians have bettered the standard in men’s 20km walking race while only three will make it for the Rio Olympics
Highlights of Women walking race
- China’s Rui Liang won the gold medal finishing in 1:28:43
- Kumiko Okada of Japan won silver ending up at 1:30:03
- South Korean Jeongeun Lee (1:33:53) clinched bronze
- National champion Sapna finished the 20 Km walking race in 1:35:57 occupying the fourth place
Key Points
- Gurmeet Singh is the first Indian to win a gold medal in the 20 Km Men’s walking race in Asian Championship
- He is one of the three Indian athletes who qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in 20 km race walk event with an ‘A’ qualification standard (1:22:30)
- He achieved this berth in the 18th Dublin International Grand Prix in Ireland after finishing sixth with a time of 1:22:05
- He also won a silver in the national junior championships in 2000
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