File photograph of Gurindervir Singh.
| Photograph Credit score: Ritu Raj Konwar
Gurindervir Singh stormed into the document books, smashing the boys’s 100m nationwide document with a blistering 10.20-second run in a top-class subject 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 greatest stood at 10.27 seconds — clocked in 2021.
Hoblidhar, additionally of Reliance, completed a detailed second with a time of 10.22 seconds which additionally bettered his personal earlier nationwide document by 0.01 seconds within the males’s 100m Remaining Race D.
Working aspect by aspect in lanes 5 and 6, Singh and Hoblidhar have been neck-and-neck from the start however the former gained the race, bettering the sooner nationwide document 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 gained 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