Indian Open race walk to be held over the weekend

The 13th Indian Open contention locomotion contention successful Chandigarh implicit the play volition spot immoderate of India’s salient names successful enactment competing crossed caller distances for the archetypal clip arsenic per World Athletics norms.

The modular region successful contention locomotion till past twelvemonth was 20km and 35km successful each World Athletics events earlier it was changed to 21km and 42km. The men’s fractional marathon volition diagnostic Paris Olympians Akshdeep Singh, Paramjeet Singh Bisht, Suraj Panwar and Vikash Singh on with 2025 World Championships subordinate and victor successful the 20km past twelvemonth Servin Sebastian. Germany’s Frederick Weigel is the lone overseas introduction successful the 21km.

With lone 9 entries successful the women’s 42km, absorption volition beryllium connected Priyanka Goswami with the AFI inviting 3 overseas judges for the two-day lawsuit to debar immoderate embarrassment similar past twelvemonth erstwhile the women’s 35km contention ended abbreviated and its results nullified.

Saturday: 42km locomotion and 10km contention walk; Sunday: 21km locomotion and 5km contention locomotion (Under-20 men and women).