Overview
- He clocked 2:19:55 to place 10th overall while finishing first among Indian men in his first official marathon.
- The Athletics Federation of India’s Asian Games standard is 2:15:04, leaving him short of the qualifying mark from Mumbai.
- He plans to race the national marathon championship in New Delhi next month as the pathway to earn selection.
- Runners contended with a challenging course that added the Coastal Road and the Kemp’s Corner–Pedder Road inclines, along with a hazy morning.
- Karkera, an orthopaedic surgeon based in Nasik who trains under coach Vijender Singh, won as Ethiopia’s Tadu Abate took the men’s title and Yeshi Chekole led the women, with Sanjivani Jadhav the top Indian woman.