Asian Games – Karthik Kumar won silver, Gulveer won bronze, no medal in 400 meter race

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Hangzhou,. India won two unexpected medals in the Asian Games track and field events on Saturday as distance runners Karthik Kumar and Gulveer Singh won silver and bronze respectively in the men’s 10,000 meters race at the Olympic Stadium here on Saturday, despite the country facing a tough competition. Had to face the challenge. No positions were found in the men’s and women’s 400 meters races.
Karthik and Gulveer gave their best performance to give India the first place by 2-3, leaving behind Bahrain’s Birhanu Yamatav Balev in the 19th edition of the Asian Games.
Karthik, a 24-year-old armyman from Uttar Pradesh, who along with Gulveer had participated in the Reliance Foundation’s high-performance program late last year, won the silver medal with a timing of 28:15.38, while Gulveer won the silver medal in 28:17.21. Won the medal. bronze medal. Balev won the gold medal with a timing of 28:13.62.
Their timings are the second and third best Indian all-time timings and are next to the national record – 28:02.89 set by their coach Surendra Singh in 2008. It was a brilliant performance from both Karthik and Gulveer as they gave their best efforts Did. This is the second consecutive day when India has won a medal from track and field competitions which they were not expecting. Kiran Baliyan won a silver medal in the women’s shot put event on Friday. Karthik made a fast start and completed the first 1000m in 2:51.76 and led the 2000m in 5:45.70. Ren Tazawa of Japan led till 6000 meters with a time of 17:06.48. Fellow Japanese Kazurya Shojiri then took charge, before falling behind in the final few laps as Ballew took charge for the finish with 1000 meters to go. Karthik and Gulveer followed him and finished second and third respectively.
It was a slow race, bearing in mind that the Games record is 27:32.72 set by Bahrain’s Silisuma Shughi in Guangzhou in 2010. The Asian record is 26:38.76 set by Ahmed Hassan Abdullah of Qatar in 2003.
Earlier, in the women’s 400m final, India’s Aishwarya Mishra finished fifth with a timing of 53.50, while in the men’s 400m final, Muhammad Ajmal finished fifth with a timing of 45.97.
In men’s long jump, Jesswin Aldrin and Murali Sreeshankar qualified for the finals. Sreeshankar qualified in 7.97 metres, while Jeswin finished as the best jumper with 7.67, who did not achieve the automatic qualification distance.

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