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Priyanka Goswami and Akshdeep Singh, national record holders in womens and mens 20km race walk respectively, combined to secure the Paris Olympics qualification for India in the newly introduced marathon race walk mixed relay with an 18th-place finish in the World Race Walking Team Championships in Antalya, Turkey on Sunday.X)..
The duo clocked 3:05:03 in the mixed event which will make its Olympic debut this summer, to make the cut from the Worlds that offered 22 teams the Paris spot..
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With the mixed event featuring for the first time in a major championship the male and female walkers alternate in distances of 12.195km, 10km, 10km and 10km and it involves a wrist band exchange within a 20m takeover zone most walkers were entering the unknown in Turkey..
. With the mixed spot in focus at this World Championships, Priyanka and Akshdeep sat out of the individual 20km races..
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