Gulveer Singh qualifies for World Championships with sub-13-min record in 5,000m run

Gulveer clocks 12 minutes and 59.77 seconds to finish fourth at the Terrier DMR Challenge indoor competition in Boston

New Delhi: India’s Asian Games bronze medallist Gulveer Singh smashed the Asian Indoor 5000m record while also qualifying for the World Athletics Championships to be held later this year when he finished fourth in an indoor event in Boston, USA.

Gulveer clocked 12 minutes and 59.77 seconds to finish fourth at the Terrier DMR Challenge indoor competition in Boston on Friday and become the first Indian to run 5000m in sub 13 minutes.
His performance on the Boston University track eclipsed the earlier Asian indoor 5000m record of 13:08.41s set by Thailand’s Kieran Tuntivate in 2022.

The entry standard for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo is 13.01.00. The 26-year-old Armyman also bettered his own 5000m outdoor national record of 13:11.82 by more than 12 seconds.
Indian athletics chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair, however, said Gulveer’s timing may not be considered as the outdoor national record.