UP’s Ram Baboo breaks race walk national mark

Ram Baboo

Uttar Pradesh's Ram Baboo shattered the national record in the men's 35km race walk event en route winning the gold medal on the concluding day of athletics competition at the National Games here on Tuesday.

Baboo, an unemployed physical education graduate, won the event in 2 hours 36 minutes 34 seconds, bettering the earlier national record of 2:40:16, which was in the name of Haryana's Juned Khan who finished second on Tuesday with a time of 2:40.51.

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