Sanabam Daman Singh
Manipurโ€™s Sanabam Daman Singh. Image credit - Twitter

Sanabam Daman Singh from Manipur has brought laurels to the state by winning the menโ€™s 50km race walk event in final day of the National Championships at Ranchi on Sunday.

According to reports, 30-year-old Sanabam Daman Singh won the event in 4 hours, 8 minutes and 10 seconds.

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While sharing a news report on Sanabam Daman Singhโ€™s win at the Ranchi event, Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh said: โ€œPower house of the Indian sports Manipurโ€™s #DamanSingh wins 50km race walk event in #NationalChampionships.โ€

Saying that they are โ€œproudโ€ of Sanabam Daman, the Manipur CM said, โ€œhope that you will shine our India in the international arenasโ€.

It has been reported that Punjabโ€™s 35-year-old Gurpreet Singh stood second with a timing of 4:09:44s while Uttar Pradeshโ€™s Anjani Singh finished third clocking 4:22:37s.

The winner of 2019, Jitendra Rathore from Rajasthan and the runner-up, Sagar Joshi from Gujarat were among the 8 competitors who could not finish the race.

As per the report, in the menโ€™s Under-20 10km race walk event, Amit from Haryana won the gold with a national record time of 40 minutes 28 seconds breaking the earlier mark set by Akshdeep Singh in the National Junior Athletics Championships in 2018.

He led a bunch of six athletes who breached the World Junior Athletics Championships qualification standard of 43:30s.

Meanwhile, in the girlsโ€™ Under-20 10km race walk event, 18-year-old Munita Prajapati beat Baljeet Kaur Bajwa and achieved the World Junior Athletics Championships qualification standard of 50:30s with a winning timing of 50:15.00s.

Baljeet Kaur from Punjab finished one second slower than the world standard.