Gulveer Singh Wins 10,000m Gold, Books Ticket to Asian Athletics Championships

Uttar Pradesh’s Gulveer Singh booked his ticket to the upcoming Asian Athletics Championships by profitable the boys’s 10,000m gold on the opening day of the Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships.

The Asian Athletics Championships is scheduled to be held from July 12 to 16 in Bangkok.

Gulveer received with a time of 29:05.90 seconds, which was higher than the Asian Championships qualifying time of 29:30.

The prime 11 athletes within the 25-lap race have been under the Asian qualification time.

Gujarat’s worldwide runner Murli Kumar Gavit, who completed eleventh within the area of 35 athletes, clocked 29:27.76.

Of the 45 athletes who began the race, 10 didn’t end.

The girls’s 10,000m race was received by Maharashtra’s Sanjivani Jadhav, with a time of 33:32.73, practically 30 seconds slower than the Asian qualifying time of 33 minutes. Of the 5 athletes that took the sphere 4 completed the race.

Away from the observe, Uttar Pradesh’s Tanya Chaudhary received the gold medal within the girls’s hammer throw with a distance of 60.54m. But she missed the Asian qualification commonplace of 62.03m.

Tanya had a sequence of 57.39m, 51.76m, 55.73m, no mark, 60.54m and no mark. International thrower Sarita R Singh, additionally from UP, completed an in depth second with a throw of 60.45m. Punjab’s Manpreet Kaur was third at 57.08m.

There was pleasure within the males’s 1500m heats as Haryana’s Aman topped his warmth with a time of three:46.04 seconds, which was higher than the Asian qualifying commonplace of three:47.84.

Aman was amongst 12 athletes who made the minimize for the ultimate. Johnson completed second behind Aman within the heats with a time of three:49.21.

It was heartbreak for Delhi’s worldwide quarter-miler Amoj Jacob as he strained his hamstring and pulled out of the fifth and final warmth.

Rajesh Ramesh of Tamil Nadu breached the continental qualification mark of 46.17 seconds within the 400m semifinals. He clocked 46.13 seconds.

In the ladies’s 400m heats, two athletes have been profitable in reserving tickets to the Asian Championship. Aishwarya Mishra of Maharashtra coated 400m in 52.85 seconds to higher the qualifying time of 53.54 seconds, whereas in one other warmth R Vithya Ramraj of Tamil Nadu crossed the end line in 53.32 seconds.

Kerala’s Maymon Poulose emerged the quickest runner within the morning 100m heats with a time of 10.54 seconds. He additional improved his time to 10.46 seconds within the semifinals to enter the ultimate.

National report holder Amiya Kumar Mallick of Odisha clocked 10.41 seconds within the semifinals to keep heading in the right direction.

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