Indian long-distance runners Kartik Kumar and Gulveer Singh bagged a silver and bronze medal respectively within the males’s 10000m race with private greatest instances on the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday. Kartik gained the silver with a timing of 28:15.38s whereas Gulveer clocked 28:17.21s to say the bronze. Both the Indians sneaked into medal rivalry within the final 100 metres after three of the man opponents fell in succession after bumping into one another.

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Birhanu Yemataw Balew of Bahrain gained the gold medal with a timing of 28:13.62 seconds.

Kartik’s earlier private greatest time was 28:55.00s which he had clocked whereas profitable a bronze within the National Games final 12 months. He had gained gold within the National Inter-State Championships in June with a time of 29:01.84s.

“I knew that I would win a medal but I had come with the target of breaking the national record by clocking 27:50s. But I could not. I was slow in between, the race was also slow from the beginning,” stated Kartik, who hails from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.

The nationwide file stands at 28:02.89s within the identify of Surendra Singh since 2008.

In the 400m race remaining, Aishwarya Mishra completed fourth with a time of 53.50s within the girls’s occasion whereas Muhammed Ajmal clocked 45.97s to finish at fifth spot within the males’s competitors.

In 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.

While 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 lads’s lengthy leap occasion.

In girls’s 100m hurdles, Jyothi Yarraji clocked 13.03s to complete second in her warmth and qualify for the ultimate.

But 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.

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