While Agarwadekar won the run in the men\u2019s category clocking a timing of one hour, 22 minutes and 49 seconds, Garg emerged as winner in the women\u2019s category, timing two hours, six minutes and 34 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI had a wonderful experience and the climate was good. I had participated in the 10-km run and had come in second place in the previous edition. I look forward to participating again next year,\u201d said 26-year-old Akash Agarwadekar from Assonora, who works as a lifesaver with Drishti Marine.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt was amazing though it was my first time participating in a 21-km open category. I had participated in the 10-km category earlier and won it,\u201d said 38-year-old Garg from Bambolim.<\/span><\/p>\n In the 10-km men\u2019s open category, winner Babu Gaonkar clocked a time of 37 minutes and 23 seconds, while Ayan Soares won the women\u2019s open category with a time of 50 minutes and 0.8 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n Over 2,000 participants participated in the event, which took the runners through the rain-soaked roads from the Sports Authority of Goa athletics stadium, Bambolim to Miramar circle and back.\u00a0 The event witnessed 320 men and 30 women\u00a0 participating\u00a0 in the 21-km run, while the 10-km run involved 495 men and 85 women. The 5-km run consisted of 527 men and 223 women participants, while 272 men and 113 women took part in the 2-km fun walk. No winners were adjudged for the runs in the last two categories, which were not formally timed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe runners demonstrated remarkable determination and ran with utmost dedication,\u201d said Avinash Singh Parmar, chairman and spokesperson of Rotary Rain Run, after the event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Recognised as a ‘certified measured course’ by World Athletics, a global sports governing body, in collaboration with the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races, the event was assisted by Indian army and navy personnel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe army and navy’s provision of excellent logistical solutions significantly contributed towards the smooth success of the\u00a0 event,\u201d Parmar said.<\/span><\/p>\n The Rotary Rain Run also served as a fundraising initiative for the ‘Prakash Cancer Aid Project,’ an organisation dedicated to promoting women’s health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On early Sunday morning, the warm-up session for the 10km and 21km runs consisted of a yoga session, participants in 2km and 5km runs engaged in a lively Zumba session to prepare themselves before the run. Lavina Soares, a renowned singer also\u00a0 performed live ahead of the event. Arrangements were made for a Rain Shower at two places – one at All India Radio and another at Manipal Hospital which was appreciated by the runners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The highlight was a Coast Guard chopper hovering and clicking pictures of the participants at the venue.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The 21-km and the 10-km runs were flagged off by Brigadier Arvinder Singh Sawhney, commandant of 2 STC and Nasir Bordaswala, district governor of Rotary District 3170 respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Goa Khabar: Drishti Lifeguard Akash Agarwadekar and electronics and communications engineer Pragati Garg won the male and female categories respectively in the 21-km open event at the Goa Tourism Nuron Rotary Rain Run 2023 on Sunday, while two students, 21-year-old Babu Gaonkar from Sanguem and Ayan Soares (18) from Margao, topped the male and female […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":90702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3745,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-90701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90703,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90701\/revisions\/90703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/28.07GOA-272x300.jpg\")
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