Indian long-distance runners Kartik Kumar and Gulveer Singh bagged the silver and bronze medals respectively within the males’s 10000m race on the Asian Video games right here on Saturday.
Kartik gained the silver with a timing of 28:15.38s whereas Gulveer clocked 28:17.21s to assert the bronze.
Each the Indians sneaked into medal competition within the final 100 metres after three of the man rivals fell in succession after bumping into one another.
Birhanu Yemataw Balew of Bahrain gained the gold medal with a timing of 28:13.62 seconds.
Kartik’s earlier private finest time was 28:55.00s which he had clocked whereas profitable a bronze within the Nationwide Video games final yr. He had gained gold within the Nationwide Inter-State Championships in June with a time of 29:01.84s.
“I knew that I might win a medal however I had include the goal of breaking the nationwide document by clocking 27:50s. However I couldn’t. I used to be sluggish in between, the race was additionally sluggish from the start,” mentioned Kartik, who hails from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
The nationwide document stands at 28:02.89s within the identify of Surendra Singh since 2008.
Within the 400m race closing, Aishwarya Mishra completed fourth with a time of 53.50s within the ladies’s occasion whereas Muhammed Ajmal clocked 45.97s to finish at fifth spot within the males’s competitors.
Within the 1500m, Jinson Johnson and Ajay Kumar Saroj certified for the ultimate by clocking 3:56.93s and three:51.93 seconds of their respective heats. Whereas Saroj completed second in his warmth, Johnson was fifth.
Jeswin Aldrin Johnson and Murali Sreeshankar leaped 7.67m and seven.97m to qualify for the ultimate of the boys’s lengthy leap occasion.
In ladies’s 100m hurdles, Jyothi Yarraji clocked 13.03s to complete second in her warmth and qualify for the ultimate. However it was heartbreak for the opposite Indian within the fray, Nithya Ramraj who completed fifth in her warmth with a timing of 13.30s and didn’t qualify for the ultimate.
