Gulveer wins India’s first gold.
• Gulveer Singh, India’s best track athlete, wins the 10,000m at the Asian Athletics Championships.
• Despite missing automatic qualification for September’s World Championships by 22 micro seconds, Singh’s performance improves his world ranking and chances to qualify for the Worlds.
• He overtakes Bahrain’s Albert Rop and Mebuki Suzuki of Japan for the top spot and his maiden international gold.
• Servin Sebastian wins bronze in the 20km race walk, his maiden international medal.
• Other Indian athletes advance to the finals of their respective events, including Yoonus Shah in the 1500m, Sarvesh Kushare in high jump, T.K.Vishal in the 400m, Rupal Chaudhary and Vithya Ramraj in the women’s 400m.
• Jay Kumar misses out on the 400m semis and Annu Rani finishes fourth in women’s javelin.
• Tejaswin Shankar leads the decathlon with 4205 points after five events.