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Bhawana qualifies for Olympics with National record time

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20km walk Ranchi: Unheralded Bhawna Jat qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in the 20km race walk event after pulling off a shock win with a national record time at the National Championships here on Saturday.

Bhawna, 23, who hails from a poor farmeru2019s family at Kabra village in Rajasthan, clocked 1 hour 29 minutes and 54 seconds, well inside the Olympic qualification time of 1: 31: 00, to win the gold.

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