<p>New Delhi: India's Gulveer Singh on Saturday set a new national record en route to winning the men's 5000m gold in the Yogibo Athletics Challenge Cup of World Athletics Continental Tour at Niigata, Japan.</p><p>Gulveer, a bronze winner at last year's Hangzhou Asian Games, clocked 13:11.82 seconds to win the gold in the World Athletics' bronze level meet.</p><p>The 26-year-old broke his own national mark of 13:18.92s set during the Portland Track Festival earlier this year.</p>.Athlete Gulveer Singh shatters 16-year-old national record in 10000m.<p>In Portland, Gulveer had overcome Avinash Sable's record of 13:19.30s set at the Sound Running On Track Fest in 2023 at Los Angeles.</p><p>Gulveer had also broken the men's 10000m national mark during the Ten track meet in California earlier this March, touching the tape at 27.41.81s.</p><p>He then had obliterated the second oldest record in Indian men's track and field events, a time of 28.02.89s set by Surender Singh in 2008. </p>
<p>New Delhi: India's Gulveer Singh on Saturday set a new national record en route to winning the men's 5000m gold in the Yogibo Athletics Challenge Cup of World Athletics Continental Tour at Niigata, Japan.</p><p>Gulveer, a bronze winner at last year's Hangzhou Asian Games, clocked 13:11.82 seconds to win the gold in the World Athletics' bronze level meet.</p><p>The 26-year-old broke his own national mark of 13:18.92s set during the Portland Track Festival earlier this year.</p>.Athlete Gulveer Singh shatters 16-year-old national record in 10000m.<p>In Portland, Gulveer had overcome Avinash Sable's record of 13:19.30s set at the Sound Running On Track Fest in 2023 at Los Angeles.</p><p>Gulveer had also broken the men's 10000m national mark during the Ten track meet in California earlier this March, touching the tape at 27.41.81s.</p><p>He then had obliterated the second oldest record in Indian men's track and field events, a time of 28.02.89s set by Surender Singh in 2008. </p>