Harmilan Kaur Bains runs to a new National 1500m mark
The Hindu
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“I think it’s going to be a National record,” Harmilan Kaur Bains said in excitement as she waited for the 1500m results to appear on the giant screen at the 60th National Open athletics championships at the Nehru Stadium here on Thursday.
And when they did, she collapsed in joy. For her gold-winning time of 4:05.39s broke Sunita Rani’s 19-year-old National record that came with the Busan Asian Games gold in 2002.
Harmilan had been waiting desperately for something like this on the road to the Olympics for she was lying on the 49th spot in the Tokyo rankings with only 45 berths available.
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