{"id":55804,"date":"2026-09-30T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55804"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:37:06","slug":"asian-games-mukesh-pal-breaks-20-year-old-national-record-in-mens-5000-metres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/asian-games-mukesh-pal-breaks-20-year-old-national-record-in-mens-5000-metres\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games: Mukesh Pal breaks 20-year-old national record in men&#8217;s 5,000 metres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 30: Nepali runner Mukesh Bahadur Pal has set a new national record in the men\u2019s 5,000-metre race at the ongoing 20th Asian Games in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Pal completed the race in 14 minutes 03.61 seconds, breaking the previous national record of 14:04.89 set by Rajendra Bhandari at the 2004 Athens Olympics, according to the National Sports Council (NSC).<\/p>\n<p>Pal finished ninth among 18 athletes in the race. His performance ended Bhandari\u2019s more than two-decade-old national record by over a second.<\/p>\n<p>Bhandari had set the record while competing at the Athens Olympics in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 30: Nepali runner Mukesh Bahadur Pal has set a new national record in the men\u2019s 5,000-metre race at the ongoing 20th Asian Games in Japan. Pal completed the race in 14 minutes 03.61 seconds, breaking the previous national record of 14:04.89 set by Rajendra Bhandari at the 2004 Athens Olympics, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55806,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55804\/revisions\/55806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}