India Sprinter Animesh Kujur broke a 100m national record with an incredible timing of 10.18 seconds at the International Sprint and Relay International Meeting in Greece on Saturday.
22 -year -old Kujur, which in the second heat of the competition became the first Indian to register the timing 10.20 seconds in 100 meters, improved Gurindervir Singh’s earlier 100m national record of 10.20 seconds to meet in Vari, the suburb of the Greek capital Athens.
Sotirios Garagganis of Greece (10.23 s) and Samuli Samuelsson (10.28s) were second and third in the world athletic continental tour of silver labels.
Kujur now holds both 100 m and 200m national records. In May in May in South Korea in May in South Korea, he disrupted 20.32 seconds in May to break his previous national stamp 20.40 seconds at the beginning of the year at the beginning of the year.
In the past, the silver medalist of the Asian Mohammed Afsal games broke his own national record and became the first Indian to run under 1:45 minutes in the 800 -meter men in Memorial CZeslawa Cybulskiego, Poland in Poland.
Afsal, who won the silver medal in the Asian Games 2022 in Hangzhou, clocked 1: 44.96 minutes and finished sixth in the heat and/1 action.
In May 29 -year -old Afsal recorded 1: 45,61 to interrupt the seven -year national record of 1: 45.65, which was set by Jamson Johnson in 2018, during the athletics of SAE Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai.
Afsal finished second.
On Saturday, the first three positions were taken by Polish runners with Maciej Wyderka, who first ended with the timing of 1: 44,23, which was his personal and recording of the meeting.
Filip Ostrowski (1: 44,25s) and Patryk Sieradzki (1: 44,56), who finished second and third, also recorded their personal bests.
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Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
6 July 2025
