Sawan Barwal breaks Shivnath Singh's 48-year-old marathon national record

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Long-distance runner Sawan Barwal scripted past by breaking the 48-year-old marathon nationalist record, the longest-standing people successful Indian athletics, astatine the NN Marathon Rotterdam, Netherlands. Photo credits: Athletics Federation of India via PTI Photo

Long-distance runner Sawan Barwal connected Sunday (April 12, 2026) scripted past by breaking the 48-year-old marathon nationalist record, the longest lasting people successful Indian athletics, astatine the NN Marathon Rotterdam.

Barwal clocked 2 hours 11 minutes and 58 seconds successful a satellite people tract to decorativeness 20th successful the elite marathon contention and erase the erstwhile nationalist grounds of 2:12:00 which stood since 1978 successful Shivnath Singh's name.

Published - April 13, 2026 01:00 americium IST

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