India’s Gulveer Singh shattered the national record in the men’s 3000m race at the Gyulai István Memorial Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix 2025 meet in Budapest on Tuesday.
Competing in the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet at the National Athletics Centre, the 27-year-old Indian athlete finished fifth with a time of seven minutes and 34.49 seconds (7:34.49).
The effort eclipsed his previous mark of 7:38.26, set at the Boston University meet in February, by over three seconds. The new record is subject to ratification by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI).
Kenya’s Mathew Kipsang won the race in 7:33.23, with Mexico’s Eduardo Herrera (7:33.58) and Uganda’s World Championships 5000m bronze medallist Oscar Chelimo (7:33.93) completing the top three.
The world record of 7:17.55 belongs to two-time Olympic gold medallist Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway, set in August last year.
Gulveer now holds national records in the 3000m, 5000m and 10000m. He lowered his own 5000m mark to 12:59.77 at the Boston University Terrier DMR Challenge in the USA in February. It is also the Asian 5000m short track record.
Gulveer Singh set a national record in the men’s 10000m by clocking 27:00.22 at the TEN 2025 meet in the USA in March.
Earlier this year, Gulveer won the gold medal in the 10000m at the Asian Athletics Championships with a meet record of 13:24.77. In 2023, Gulveer won Asian Games 10000m bronze with his then personal best of 28:17.21.