Right from the bat, let’s just say: Never before in Indian sprinting have four fast runners not only raised the bar, but also did not create legitimate expectations of the medal on the continental level. Meet the Gurindervir Singh Quartet, Animesh Kujur, Hoblidhar manicant, and then in the final section, Amlan Borgohain, Stoic, upright with Banshee, Maelstrom raw, untamed energy.
It all started much earlier, on the classic 2025 classic in Chandigarh, on a hot, dry 30th April in the afternoon with temperatures hovering around 39 degrees, which softened to early in the evening when the final was 4×100 m. There were about 500 fans around the track, the magic of the relay always has the increase in excitement. Previously in The Hears, the Reliance team, which included Gurindervir, Animesh, Manicant and Amlan, clocked 38,93s. Only 0.04 seconds from the National Record of 38.89s created ten years and a half back from Rahmatull Mola, Suresh Satya, Shameer Mon and Abdul Najeeb Qureshi to 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Immediately after heating, the sprinters crowded around James Hillier, the athletic director of Reliance Foundation, and the words of encouragement were exchanged. “Go to the record,” athletes said. In fact, the manicant, before the finals, in the lessons and 35 minutes that preceded her, expressed a confident pre -premium: “It’s a perfect day to break the NR.”
In the Kochi Federation Cup, ten days ago, athletes complained about moisture and how it broke their energy. Animesh, however, broke the 200m national record, where it appeared 20.40s.
Previously, in March, Gurindervir Singh, created a new national record of new men with an impressive 10.20s in the Indian Grand Prix in Bengalur. The earlier record was with the manicant Hoblidhar, 10.23, set in October 2023.
In a way, the gears were meshing.
Odishin fake the beginning delayed the final of 3-4 minutes. Frayed nerves. On the weapon, however, Gurindervir fired as a frightened bucks in the lane 3. The transition to Animesh Kujur was smooth when he accelerated, and then the replacement of a liquid baton with Hoblidhar, who made a curve with accuracy before he handed it to Amlan, who was clear, a mile victory, but the bow came to the package with NR blisters 38.69s.
Time for the medal?
China, which was in the perspective, claimed silver at the last Asian championships with 38.87 seconds. This national record can win the medal-can interrupt the 46-year barrier. Dream Big: It could even be gold, India has never achieved something in this event.
India has gained bronze in the male 4 × 100m relays on Asian athletic championships in 1973, 1975 and 1979. Since then, four and a half decades without a medal. The stage remained a miracle.
The baton passed. Heritage was restored. From one generation to the other, the Indian 4 × 100m men’s relay team of men not only carried a baton – they bore a dream forward. In the last ten Asian athletics championships, the highest Indian destination was 4th in 2003 (39,69s) and 2007 (39,84s).
Although the consistency is in virtue sports and sprinters have shown it enough last year, it is a feeling of melange that makes this team irresistible. In Gurindervir you see hunger, naked desire to run fast, animesh, amazing runner Bend believes that stands next to the clock that will lead him to history, in his quite behavior you can see the depth to tap. Manicant Hoblidhar, relaxed, calm, 3. The runner, loves bend, his occasion is ringing steel and then 4 feet.
On the bench, in addition to these four and after flight to South Korea at Asian athletic championships, will be Pranav Gurav (10,27s), Tamil Arasa (10,42) and Ragul Kumar (10,45s). Of course, timing will improve, but the relay key is not about having four fastest on the continent, even though we are still far from this brand, but having a team that gather into a lot of liquid runners and easily rolling.
There is a concise description of the Travailas relay quartet from Matthew Futterman from the New York Times when the US team failed to qualify for the 4×100 relay at the Tokyo Olympic Games: Inevitably suffer. “
In this American team, Trayvon Bromell, Fred Kerley, Ronnie Baker, Cravon Gillespie was one of the four fastest in the world. But the team crashed sixth. Bromell has PB 9.76S. Fred Kerley, in addition to the victory of silver in Tokyo 100m has a PB 9.76s. Ronnie Baker has a PB 9,83s, while Gillespie has a PB 9,93S with 2019 with a championship relay relay for introduction. Yet, in the biggest phase, at the moment that mattered, crashed and burned.
To make India on the global scene, the catalyst for sprinters passing through the system must be inserted into a flat ten or below ten. It is the Holy Grail for the Indian sprinter and the way to the World Class relay team. Hillier notes: “It’s a nice barrier to break and people ask me a lot. We always talk about 10.00 or 9.99 – why not 9,95? We often discuss these barriers and I think it’s broken.
Abdul Najeeb Qureshi, part of the Quartet held by the NR for 15 years, said the victory came after the team stayed and worked. “First, we will have to set up cooperation and prepare them mentally. We have to set four players who are going to run together – it is not possible to train individually in different countries. The exchange is essential. Even if you look at the US, sometimes drop a baton, despite training for more than a year.”
“When we did CWG, we spent more than a year preparing for the exchange of the relay and I can confidently say that it was the best of all our competitors. We were not the fastest runners on the pitch – I ran 10.3 and the others were 10.4 runners – yet we exchanged smoothly, resulting in our brilliant timing.”
Immediately after setting a new national record of 38.69s, four joined together and talked about “perfect stock exchanges”, needed a record ”, we knew just after heating that we could achieve. “Amlan while talking about enforcing the record. “Three in the group will also start 10.1”
Four rolled up, heated in the euphoria of the moment Congratulations. The team looked like. Excited. They appreciate each other. Later it will return to the training. In persecution of medals and shifting borders that separate large from good.
