Sandeep Kumar finishes 35th in 50km Race Walk

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 19: India's Sandeep Kumar finished 35th in the men's 50km Race Walk event here at the ongoing Rio Olympics on Friday. The 30-year-old racewalker took four hours, seven minutes and fifty five seconds to complete the distance. Matej Toth of Slovakia won the gold clocking 3:40:58, while Australian Jared Tallent (3:41:16) took the silver and Hirooki Arai of Japan settled for the bronze with a time of 3:41:24.

The Indian was 26:57 minutes behind the leader of the race at the finish line. IANS