Gulveer goes the distance to win 3,000m gold

Tehran, February 19

Gulveer Singh fetched India’s fourth gold medal in the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships as he won the 3,000m final on the concluding day here.

Gulveer clocked 8 minutes, 07.48 seconds to finish on top of podium in the non-Olympics event.

Keneshbekov Nursultan (8:08.85) of Kyrgyzstan and Jalil Naseri (8:09.39) of Iran took the silver and bronze medals, respectively.

Earlier in the day, Ankita won the silver medal in women’s 3,000m race with a time of 9:26.22.

Tajinderpal Singh Toor (shot put), Jyothi Yarraji (100m hurdles) and Harmilan Bains (1,500m) had won a gold each on the first day. Toor and Yarraji had smashed their own national records. India ended the championships with four gold and one silver. The country had won one gold, six silver and one bronze in the last edition in Astana, Kazakhstan.