♦ India’s Gulveer Singh won the gold medal in the men’s 5,000 meters race at the World Athletics Continental Tour in Japan on 28 September 2024.

♦ He create a new national record with a time of 13 minutes and 11.82 seconds.

♦ This broke his own previous record of 13 minutes and 18.92 seconds, which he had set earlier this year (2024).

♦ Japan’s Mebuki Suzuki took second place with a personal best of 13:13.80. Another Japanese runner, Kotaro Shinohara, took third place with a time of 13:15.70.

♦ In March 2024, Gulveer broke the men’s 10,000m record at the Ten Track Meet in California.

♦ He crossed the finish line in 27 minutes and 41.81 seconds, and in doing so, he improved on Surender Singh’s old mark of 28 minutes and 02.89 seconds, set nearly 16 years ago in 2008.