Kieran tuntivate

Tokyo World Athletics Championships: India’s Hangzhou Asian Games bronze medallist, Gulveer Singh, etched his name in books on Friday at Boston University track by breaking the 13-minute barrier for the indoor 5,000m event and also improved his outdoor national record.

The Army’s 26-year-old distance runner on his way to a fourth-place finish at Terrier DMR Challenge indoor competition in Boston on Friday night also improved the Asian Indoor 5,000m record and achieved automatic qualifying standard to compete at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.

Gulveer clocked an impressive time of 12:59.77 seconds, a first by an Indian runner, to narrowly miss third place at the Terrier DMR Challenge indoor competition in Boston.