Indian athlete Bhavna Jat qualified for the Olympics to be held in Tokyo this year after setting a new national record in the 20 km walking distance of the national championship. The 23-year-old Rajasthan athlete has won the gold medal in 1: 29.54 seconds and won the Olympic ticket, whose qualification time was 1: 31.00 seconds. The spirit of the peasant family thus greatly improved their personal best performance of 1: 38.30 seconds during the national championship held in October last year and has earned gold medals.
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She became the second Indian female athlete to qualify for the Olympics in the 20 km paddling event. Before her, Khushbir Kaur participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics in this event. Priyanka Goswami of Uttar Pradesh almost missed the Olympic cut from 1: 31.36 seconds which will be held from July 24 to August 9. Earlier, the national record was in the name of Baby Soumya of Delhi, who took 1: 31.29 seconds in the National Pedestrian Championship 2018 (Delhi). Bhavna practices on her own under the supervision of coach Gurmukh Sihag in Jaipur. She has not participated in any international competition at the junior or senior level. She has also not been part of any camp of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI). She made her senior debut at the 2016 National Inter-State Championships.
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In this competition held in Hyderabad, she was ranked fifth with a time of 1: 52.38 seconds. Katie Irfan (men's 20 km walk), Avinash Sabale (men's 3000m steeplechase) and Mixed 477 VIII (38) 77400m relay team and Neeraj Chopra (men's javelin throw) have already qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in athletics. Bhavna's coach Gurmukh said that Bhavna has given a sample for the dope test, which means that her national record will be valid. Bhavna will then participate in the Asian Walking Championships which will be held in Japan from 15 March. In the men's category, Sandeep Kumar may have missed out on qualifying the Olympics but was successful in winning the gold of 20 km. Sandeep finished first with 01: 21.34 seconds.
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