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Indian Open Race Walk Competition: Uttar Pradesh's international race walker Ram Baboo and Punjab’s Manju each won gold medals in the men's and women’s 42km full marathon walk at the 13th Indian Open Race Walk Competition held at Sukhna Lake on Saturday.

The 26-year-old race walker finished with a time of 3:09:17.00 to secure the gold medal in the challenging full marathon walk, which was introduced this season by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI). In his first race of the season and following his bronze medal at the Asian Games in the 35km mixed walk team event, he narrowly surpassed his more favored competitor, Sandeep Kumar of Haryana.

Olympian and Commonwealth Games medallist Sandeep Kumar finished with a silver medal, clocking in at 3:11:18.00.