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Asian Games: Karthik Kumar, Gulveer Claim Silver, And Bronze; No Medals In 400m Races (Ld)

By IANS News September 30, 2023 • 22:12 PM View: 577

Fellow Japanese Kazurya Shojiri: India picked up two unexpected medals in the Asian Games track and field competitions on Saturday as distance runners Karthik Kumar and Gulveer Singh bagged a silver and bronze respectively in the Men's 10,000m race while the country found the going tough in the men's and women's 400m races at the Hangzhou Olympic Stadium here on Saturday.

Karthik and Gulveer clocked their personal best times as they finished behind Bahrain's Birhanu Yemataw Balew to claim for India the first 2-3 finish in the 19th edition of the Asian Games.

Karthik, the 24-year-old Armyman from Uttar Pradesh who along with Gulveer joined the Reliance Foundation's High-Performance programme late last year, clocked 28 minutes 15.38 to claim the silver medal while Gulveer finished in a time of 28:17.21 to bag the bronze medal. Balew took the gold medal in 28:13.62.

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