By Navneet Singh
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) It was stroll in the park for Uttarakhand s international race walker Manish Singh Rawat as he comfortably won gold medal in the newly introduced 35km event in the eighth National Race Walking Championships in Ranchi on Sunday.
Rawat s gold medal winning effort of two hours 49 minutes and 12 seconds, however, fell short of the 2022 Oregon World Athletics Championships qualifying time of two hours 33 minutes.
Gurpreet Singh won the title in the gruelling 50km race with a time of three hours 59 minutes and 42 seconds. He too couldn t achieve the Tokyo Olympic qualification time of three hours and 50 minutes.