Indian athlete Gulveer Singh broke his own national record in the men's 10,000m event at the Ten 2025 athletics meet in San Juan Capistrano, USA, with a time of 27:00.22s. This new record is 14.66 seconds faster than his previous one, set in Japan in 2024.
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