Haryana race walker Paramdeep Mor was on Sunday stripped off his silver medal after he was found to be overage in the National Junior Athletics Championships in Guwahati.
Mor won 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.
“Paramdeep Mor was found over-aged during medical/bone test and so his silver medal was taken back. AFI has zero tolerance of age fraud, so he was disqualified,” Nitin Arya, the Athletics Federation of India’s Manager in Operations and Competitions, told PTI.
After the revision of the results, Manipur’s Ningthoukhongja (44:04.11) was given the silver medal while Assam’s Bikram Das (44:07.61) was elevated to the third place. Uttarakhand’s Suraj Panwar won the gold in a time of 41:17.40.
In other events, Uttarakhand’s Reshma Patel rewrote the girls under-18 5000m national record. The 16-year-old Reshma clocked 23 minutes 38.57 seconds to…