Abdul Najeeb Qureshi (born ) is an Indian sprinter from

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. Najeeb, along with

Anil Kumar Prakash Sapper Anil Kumar Prakash (born 28 August 1978) is a retired Indian sprinter. He held the 100 metres national record of 10.30 s set at the National Circuit Athletic Meet held in New Delhi in 2005 which was broken in 2016. He previously held ...

, jointly held the

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Indian national record of 10.30, before it being broken by Amiya Kumar Mallick. On 6 October 2010, Qureshi equalled the national 100 m record while qualifying for the semi-finals during the

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held at

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. He clocked 10.30 s to equal Anil Kumar Prakash's national record set in 2005 at the National Circuit Athletic Meet held in New Delhi. Qureshi was also part of India's 4x100 relay team that won the bronze medal at the

. The team set a new national record of 38.89s. Qureshi also won 200 m sprint at the

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held at

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in February 2010. He completed his schooling from Defence Laboratories School, Kanchanbagh,

. At school, his inherent talent in running was identified by his coach Adarsh Goswami. He encouraged Najeeb to participate in the CBSE meet. During the Guangzhou Asian Games - 2010, he lost his bronze medal by just a hundredth of a second.

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Profile at All-athletics.com
Living people 1988 births Indian Muslims Indian male sprinters Sportspeople from Hyderabad, India Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games South Asian Games gold medalists for India Asian Games competitors for India South Asian Games medalists in athletics Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games {{India-athletics-bio-stub