After 44 years, India has its first medal in marathon at the Asian Games, and its a silver medal from Sawan Barwal.
The Indian Army havildar from Himachal Pradesh finished second in men’s marathon at the Aichi-Nagoya Games on Saturday with a personal best timing of 2:11:37. India last won a marathon medal in the mega event at the 1982 Delhi edition of the Games. In fact, all of India’s medals in this discipline have come on the Indian routes.
Hosur Kukkappa Seetharan won the bronze in 1982, and the only other two marathon medals came in 1951, also held in New Delhi — Chota Singh clinched gold and Surat Singh Matur bagged bronze.
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