National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships 2024: Gulveer Singh creates new Meet Record in men's 5000m

Uttar Pradesh's Gulveer Singh clinched the gold medal in the men's 5000m event at the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships 2024 with a timing of 13:34.67 seconds.

Gulveer bettered the Meet Record of 13:43.23 seconds, set by him in the previous edition of the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in Bhubaneshwar. However, Gulveer missed the Olympic qualification mark by almost 30 seconds.

Madhya Pradesh's Sunil Dawar and Haryana's Gagan Singh won the silver and bronze medals with a time of 14:02.75s and 14:05.66s, respectively. Only 13 out of 24 athletes finished the men's 5000m race.

Seven players, namely Lovepreet Singh (Punjab), Sawan Barwal (Himachal Pradesh), Karthik Kumar (Uttar Pradesh), Harmanjot Singh (Madhya Pradesh), Rakesh Mandal (Uttarakhand), Karthik Karkera (Maharashtra), and Gaurav Mathur (Delhi) did not finish the race.

Meanwhile, four players did not start the men's 5000m race. They are Aftab Ansari from Bihar, Prince Kumar from Uttar Pradesh, and two players from Rajasthan - Vikram Singh and Naresh Chopra.

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National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships 2024: Men's 5000m Results

Here are the complete results from the men's 5000m event:

1. Gulveer Singh (Uttar Pradesh) - 13:34.67s [MEET RECORD]
2. Sunil Dawar (Madhya Pradesh) - 14:02.75s
3. Gagan Singh (Haryana) - 14:05.66s
4. Trilok Kumar (Bihar) - 14:08.09s
5. Sushant Jedhe (Maharashtra) - 14:15.95s
6. Abhishek (Uttar Pradesh) - 14:16.53s
7. Rohit Kumar (Delhi) - 14:18.67s
8. Deepak Bhatt (Uttarakhand) - 14:21.48s
9. Vinod Singh (Madhya Pradesh) - 14:24.67s
10. Ajeet Kumar (Gujarat) - 14:31.15s
11. Aman Kumar (Haryana) - 14:45.57s
12. Dharmender (Rajasthan) - 14:52.99s
13. Rajeevn Namboori (Uttarakhand) - 14:59.49s
14. Lovepreet Singh (Punjab) - DNF
15. Sawan Barwal (Himachal Pradesh) - DNF
16. Karthik Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) - DNF
17. Harmanjot Singh (Madhya Pradesh) - DNF
18. Rakesh Mandal (Uttarakhand) - DNF
19. Karthik Karkera (Maharashtra) - DNF
20. Gaurav Mathur (Delhi) - DNF
21. Aftab Ansari (Bihar) - DNS
22. Prince Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) - DNS
23. Vikram Singh (Rajasthan) - DNS
24. Naresh Chopra (Rajasthan) - DNS