Indian men's team wins gold in inaugural Asian Half Marathon C'ship
The Hindu
Indian men's team wins gold, women's team bronze at Asian Half Marathon Championship. Sawan Barwal, Kartik Kumar & Abhishek Pal (men's team) & Poonam Dinkar, Kavita Yadav & Rima Patel (women's team) achieved individual bronze, 5th, 13th, 9th, 10th & 11th positions respectively. Team timings decided winner.
The Indian men's team won gold medal while the women's side clinched a bronze in the inaugural Asian Half Marathon Championship here on Saturday.
The Indian men's team consisted of Sawan Barwal, Kartik Kumar and Abhishek Pal.
Barwal, who clocked 1 hour 4 minutes and 30 seconds, also won an individual bronze medal while Kumar (1:05:21) and Pal (1:08:05) finished fifth and 13th respectively.
Poonam Dinkar, Kavita Yadav and Rima Patel represented the women's team.
Poonam (1:19:28s), Kavita (1:19:33s) and Rima (1:19:40s) finished ninth, 10th and 11th respectively in the individual event.
The timings of the individual athletes were added up to decide the team winner.
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