Gulveer Singh amongst eight-member senior squad for Asian Cross Nation in Hong Kong « Athletics Federation of India

New Delhi

Military’s 26 years outdated Asian Video games bronze medalist in males’s 10,000m monitor race, Gulveer Singh might be amongst eight-member senior group that can symbolize India on the Asian Cross Nation scheduled to be held on October 20 in Hong Kong.

Gulveer Singh had a wonderful run on the monitor this season. Earlier, within the final week of September he improved his nationwide 5,000m monitor file to 13:11.82 seconds in the course of the World Athletics Continental Tour in Japan.

The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) choice committee has additionally chosen the nationwide group in senior and junior group for the South Asian Cross-Nation Championship to be held on November 24 in Islamabad, Pakistan.

“The participation of the athletes on the South Asian Cross-Nation Championship in Pakistan might be topic to health,” Adille Sumariwalla, president AFI stated.

Nationwide group that can compete on the Asian Cross Nation can even get the chance to compete on the South Asian Cross Nation in Pakistan in November. “But when any athlete is unfit might be dropped from the nationwide squad,” the AFI president added.

Group

Males: Gulveer Singh, Karthik Kumar, Abhishek Pal, Arun Rathod.

Girls: Ankita, Seema, Sanjivani Jadhav, Sonika.

Junior: Males: Amardeep Pal, Kripashankar Yadav, Vinod Singh, Gaurav Bhaskar Bhosale.

Girls: Ekta Dey, Sunita Devi, Shilpa Dhiora, Prachi Ankush Devkar.