File picture of Gurindervir Singh.
| Photograph Credit score: Ritu Raj Konwar
Gurindervir Singh stormed into the report books, smashing the lads’s 100m nationwide report with a blistering 10.20-second run in a top-class discipline on the Indian Grand Prix 1, in Bengaluru on Friday (March 28, 2025).
The 24-year-old Punjab sprinter, representing Reliance, eclipsed the earlier nationwide mark of 10.23 seconds set by Manikanta Hoblidhar in October 2023.
Singh’s earlier private finest stood at 10.27 seconds — clocked in 2021.
Hoblidhar, additionally of Reliance, completed an in depth second with a time of 10.22 seconds which additionally bettered his personal earlier nationwide report by 0.01 seconds within the males’s 100m Last Race D.
Operating aspect by aspect in lanes 5 and 6, Singh and Hoblidhar had been neck-and-neck from the start however the former received the race, bettering the sooner nationwide report by 0.03 seconds.
Reliance swept the top-three spots as one other prime sprinter Amlan Borgohain took the third spot with a time of 10.43 seconds.
The trio and Animesh Kujur have been India’s prime 100m runners for a while.
Kujur didn’t participate on this occasion.
Singh had earlier received 100m gold within the 2021 and 2024 Nationwide Inter-State Championships, in addition to within the 2024 Federation Cup.
Printed – March 28, 2025 05:30 pm IST
