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Olympic-bound race walker KT Irfan among athletes to test positive for COVID-19 at SAI centre in Bengaluru
•The tests were conducted last Friday and those who returned positive have been kept under quarantine.
China's Yang Jiayu sets women's world record for 20-kilometre walk at Chinese Championships
•The 2017 world champion at the distance sliced 49s off the old record (1hr 24min 38sec) set by fellow Chinese Liu Hong in 2015.
Haryana race walker Paramdeep Mor stripped of National Junior Athletics Championships silver medal for age fraud
•Mor won a silver medal in the 10km race walk event in the boys' under-20 category with a time of 41:19.87 but was later found to be overage in the medical test.
Haryana's Amit Khatri sets new national record for U20 racewalking at National Federation Cup
•The 17-year-old Amit clocked 40 minutes 40.97 seconds, winning by nearly half a minute against his state-mate Paramdeep Mor, to improve on the national record of 40:37.78 set by Akshdeep Singh, in Ranchi in 2018 and the meet mark of 42:09.44 registered by Sanjay Kumar in Coimbatore in 2018.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Spanish athletes feel coronavirus lockdown in some countries could lead to competitive imbalance at Games
•Spanish athletes are concerned about the competitive imbalance between athletes from countries such as Spain and Italy which have imposed quarantines and nations where outdoor activity is still permitted
Tokyo Olympics 2020: After securing spot in Games, Bhawna Jat hopes for inclusion in TOPS
•Bhawana Jat, who on Saturday booked a Tokyo Olympics berth in 20km race walk event after winning gold in the National Championships, said she is now hoping to be included in the government's Target Olympic Podium Scheme.
Banned Russian race walking coach Viktor Chegin still working with athletes at training camps, says RUSADA official
•In 2018 five Russian race walkers were stripped of their clearance to compete internationally as neutrals pending further investigation of their participation in a training camp with Chegin in Kyrgyzstan
Olympic race walk silver medalist Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez handed four-year ban for doping, will retain Rio 2016 medal
•Gonzalez's results have been disqualified from 17 October, but she will keep her silver medal from the 20-kilometer walk at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and silver from the 2017 world championships in London
India's Irfan KT qualifies for 2020 Tokyo Olympics after finishing fourth at Asian Race Walking Championship
•India's Irfan KT has qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after finishing fourth at the Asian Race Walking Championship.
Russian Athletics Federation strip race walker Alexander Ivanov of world championship gold after being found guilty of doping
•Race walker Alexander Ivanov's 2013 world championship gold passes to China's Chen Ding, and he also loses a 2014 European Championship silver medal.