 Bhawna Jat in 2021 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 March 1996 Kabra, Rajsamand district, Rajasthan, India |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event(s) | 20 kilometres race walk |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 1:29:54 (2020 Ranchi) |
| Updated on 26 February 2020. | |
Bhawna Jat (born 1 March 1996) is an Indian racewalker [1] from Rajasthan who participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing on 32nd position in 20 kilometres race walk. [2]
Jat was born on 3 January 1996 as the youngest of three children into a family of farmers. She picked up racewalking at the age of 13 when her physical education teacher took her to a district-level athletics competition where slots were available only in the 3000 metres race walk; she finished second in the event. [3] In the subsequent years, she would train only in the early hours of the day in order to avoid conservative villagers from seeing her in shorts. [4] As her family was financially weak, she had to quit studies in college [5] and even compete barefoot during her early years. [3]
Between 2014 and 2015, Jat won medals in zonal and national junior level competitions. In 2016, she landed a job with the Indian Railways as a ticket collector in Howrah, West Bengal. [3]
At the National Open Championships in February 2020, Jat broke the national record by clocking 1:29:54 and qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics which had a qualification standard of 1:31:00. The timing was an improvement of over eight minutes from her previous personal best set in October 2019 [6] and over 23 minutes from her February 2019 National Open Championships time. [7]
In the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she recorded her personal best in the 10000 meters race walk and ended 8th. [8]
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