SportsPosted at: Sep 28 2026 7:57PM


Gulveer, Sreeshankar add silver medals as India’s athletics surge continues

Aichi-Nagoya, Sept 28 (UNI) Gulveer Singh and Murali Sreeshankar added two more silver medals to India’s athletics haul at the Asian Games here on Monday, with Gulveer producing a personal best in the 1500m and Sreeshankar defying injury to finish runner-up in the long jump.
Gulveer clocked 3:36.72 to claim silver in a fiercely contested 1500m final, finishing just 0.37 seconds behind Japan’s Kazuto Iizawa, who won gold in a Games-record 3:36.35. Another Japanese runner, Nagiya Mori, took bronze in 3:37.92.
The silver was Gulveer’s second medal of the Aichi-Nagoya Games after his runner-up finish in the 10,000m. It also took his Asian Games medal tally to three, following his 10,000m bronze at Hangzhou. He will now turn his attention to the 5000m.
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