Bengaluru, Oct. 17 -- After completing the Manhattan 20 Bridges Swim considered of the toughest swim challenges in the world, covering 48.5 kms around the city of Manhattan, 37-year-old IAS officer Shreyas Hosur has now set his sight on completing the Ironman 70.3 Goa to be held in Panaji next month.

He will be participating in the event along with his wife Divya Hosur, also an IAS officer from 2012 batch stationed in Bengaluru as Defence Estate officer. The husband-wife duo will be vying to become the first bureaucrat couple to complete the grueling race which involves 1.9km swim, 90kms cycling and 21.1kms running.

Shreyas, who is posted as Head of Finance, Bengaluru Division, South Western Railways, became the first-ever bureaucrat to c...