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India's Sandeep Kumar finished a lowly 34th in the men's 50km Walk at the Rio Olympics on Friday.
The 30-year-old Indian clocked 4 hours 7 minutes and 55 seconds, which was 26:57 seconds behind the timing of gold medallist Matej Toth of Slovakia.
At the half-way mark, Sandeep was 48th, with a timing of 1:59:13s, 9:42 seconds behind the leader.
World champion Toth beat 2012 London Olympics gold medallist Jared Tallent of Australia, who finished second, with a timing of 3:40:58 seconds.
Toth, 33, moved past the Australian in the latter stages of a race.
The Australian timed 3:41:16 seconds while Canada's Evan Dunfee (3:41:38s) settled for the bronze.
In women's 20km Walk, Khushbir Kaur finished 54th while Sapana Punia did not complete the race.
Khushbir clocked one hour 40 minutes and 33 seconds.
The 23-year-old girl from Amritsar clinched the 20km Walk silver medal at the Incheon Asian Games in 2014, bettering her personal best and setting a new National record.
She clocked 1:33:07s to improve on her previous personal best of 1:33:37s, which was also the National record, to bag the second position.
However, on Friday, Khushbir was way behind her personal best and finished 11:58 seconds behind gold medallist Liu Hong of China.
At the half-way mark, she was 48th with a time of 47:35s.
At that stage, she was 2:11s behind the leader.
Hong clocked 1:28:35s to win the gold, while the silver medal was won by Mexico's Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez (1:28:37s).
China's Lu Xiuzhi clinched the bronze with a timing of 1:28:42s.
Meanwhile, Sapana retired after 8 kms, having clocked 37:44s.