A Paris Olympics berth already secured, Akshdeep Singh of Punjab shattered his own national record en route retaining the men’s 20km title at the National Open Race Walking competition here on Tuesday.

Akshdeep clocked one hour 19 minutes and 38 seconds to better his earlier national mark of 1:19:55s. The second to fourth finishers—Suraj Panwar (1:19:44s) of Uttarakhand, Servin Sebastian (1:20:03s) of Tamil Nadu and Arshpreet Singh (1:20:04s) of Punjab—also breached the Paris Games qualifying mark of 1:20:10s, taking the total number of Indian men’s 20km race walkers who have touched the 2024 Olympics mark to six.