Kartik Kumar.
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Asian Games silver medallist Kartik Kumar and bronze medallist Gulveer Singh will be among the leading Indian runners to compete in the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K to be held on Sunday.
After Gulab Chand in 1998, 24-year-old Kartik grew to become the first Indian to win an Asian Games medal in 10,000m. Kartik, who bagged the 10,000m silver with 28:15.38 at the Hangzhou Asian Games, will be the star among dwelling runners.
Kartik clocked 1:04:08 to end second among the Indians in the Delhi half-marathon this 12 months.
He will be challenged by coaching accomplice Gulveer, who took the Asiad 10,000m bronze with 28:17.21 to guarantee a two-three end for the nation in Hangzhou.
Olympian Gopi T., the first Indian male to win the Asian marathon championship crown in 2017 in China with a timing of two:15:48, will be in the fray. In October final, he competed in the TCS Amsterdam Marathon and completed with 2:14:58.
Having received the Indian ladies’s class at the TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2023 with 00:34:12, Tamsi Singh will look to earn one other memorable end in the Indian ladies’s class. She was fifth among the Indians at the Delhi half-marathon with a timing of 1:18:01.
Ekta Rawat, who was eighth in Delhi with 1:21:30, and Nilima Thakur, who was fourth among Indians final 12 months right here with 1:39:48, will additionally be prepared for the alternative.
The first three in Elite Indian males and ladies’s classes will win ₹2.75 lakh, ₹2 lakh and ₹1.5 lakh respectively. The Indian males and ladies runners will stand to get an occasion report bonus of ₹1 lakh every.