Mandi soldier barwal breaks 48-yr-old nat'l marathon Record
Rotterdam (Netherlands):, April 13 -- Long-distance runner Sawan Barwal on Sunday scripted history by breaking the 48-year-old marathon national record, the longest standing mark in Indian athletics, at the NN Marathon Rotterdam.
Hailing from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, Barwal, a Havildar in the Indian Army, clocked 2 hours 11 minutes and 58 seconds in a world class field to finish 20th in the elite marathon race and erase the previous national record of 2:12:00 which stood since 1978 in Shivnath Singh's name. The other Indian in the fray, Gopi Thonakal finished 23rd. P16...
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