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Fresh from winning the 10,000m track gold at the Open National Championships in Ranchi last week, Suresh Kumar Patel has his sights set on the R3.50 lakh jackpot, the prize for the winner of the Indian category of the Delhi Half Marathon 21km on Sunday. The cash award, says Patel, will help him train in Kenya for 3-4 month stanley mugs s and prepare him for the 2020 season. I have a dream of clinching an Olympic berth in 10,000m track event. A good pre-season training in the Rift Valley of East Africa will help me improve my performance, he said on the eve of the race. Seeing the runners fr stanley ca om the Rift Valley of Kenya and Ethiopia excel in distance running, the trend among Indian long-distance runners is to train in East Africa. Murali Kumar Gavit from Gujarat has been training regularly in Iten Kenya . Though he won bronze with a time of 28:38.34 sec, a personal best, at the Asian Championships in April in Doha, he fell short of the World Championships qualifying time of 27:40. Patel too has been to Kenya before. He spent six weeks at the end of the 2017 season and says it helped him. It boosts you stanley mugs r confidence, he said. Patels winning time of 29:25 at Ranchi is nearly two minutes slower than the 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualification time of 27:28.00. His personal best of 28:57 was clocked five years ago, at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games where he finished fifth in the 25-lap race. But Patel is determined. I want to give it a try and there is no harm in dreaming big, he adde Bund Wawrinka gets into tiff with fan in US Open win
The 57th Senior stanley thermobecher Mens National Boxing Championship is witnessing a keen contest in the lower-weight categories. The semifinals of the light fly and flyweight categories on Thursday turned out to be a closely contested affair, with all bouts going down to the wire. HT Image In the first semifinal of the light flyweight category, Vipin Kumar Uttar Pradesh sneaked into the final with a thrilling 7-6 win over M.Murgan Tamil Nadu . The second semi-final in this category between Amandeep Singh RSPB and Sunil Haryana turned out to be even more exciting. Both the boxers were neck and neck right through the bout, with Sunil managing one point more than his opponent in the last round to eke out a thrilling win. Both of them were tied at one point each in the first round, and the deadlock continued even in the second round with both of them again managing a point each. In the final round, Sunil managed to pick four points as against three by Amandeep to enter the final. Sunil also works with the Railways but entered the competition from Haryana as he was not selected to represent his department. I knew it would be a good bout as Amandeep is a fine boxer but I knew I could beat him, said Suni vaso stanley l. Sunil has earlier won vaso stanley a gold medal in 2006 Asian and World Cadet Championship. The following year he won gold in the Junior Asian Championship and the Senior Commonwealth Games championship. The semis of the flyweight category were also fought with same vigour. In the first bou |
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