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She clocked 1:34:28 and finished 39th.
She clocked 1:34:28 and finished 39th.
She first came into limelight after winning bronze in the 10,000-metre (62 mi) walk race at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships held at Colombo, Sri Lanka. She participated in the World Championships in the 20 km walk category. At the 2014 Asian walking championships in Japan, she came third with a timing of 1:33:37 and bettered her own national record.
Khusbir Kaur is supported by Anglian Medal-Hunt Company.
Khushbir Kaur hails from a small town in Amritsar called Rasulpur Kalan. She has notched up junior national records in the 5 km and 10 km event.
After a string of successful performances in the national junior circuit, she has performed well in the international circuit – finishing second in the Youth Asian Games and third in the Junior Asian Games (2012). She had a strong 5th-place performance in the senior Walking Asian Championship in Japan.
Khushbir has recently bettered her own personal best and the national record in the Women's 20 km Walk during the Moscow World Championship (), clocking a time of 1:34:28.
Khushbir finished 39th during the event. Khushbir Kaur became the first Indian woman to clinch a 20 km Race Walk silver medal in the Asian Games by bettering her personal best and setting a new national record in the process. The 21-year-old from Amritsar clocked 1:33:07 to improve on her previous personal best of 1:33:37, which was also the national record, to finish second at the Marathon Course.