Avinash Sable, who turned 30 on Friday, clocked 8 minute and 17.09 seconds to finish ninth in the 10-man field in his debut Diamond League final.
Diamond League Finals 2024: India's decorated track and field athlete Neeraj Chopra and national record holder in men's 3000m steeplechase Avinash Sable will be in focus.
Paris Olympics: Mirabai Chanu finishes fourth in Women's 49 kg weightlifting event. India's weightlifting campaign at the Games is now over. Meanwhile, 3000m steeplechase athlete Avinash Sable finished 11th in the Men's 3000m steeplechase final in Paris on Wednesday. #parisolympics2024 #indiaatolympics #weightlifting #steeplechase #indiaatolympics #meerabaichanu #avinashsable
Avinash Sable was the first Indian man to make a track final since Sriram Singh in the 800m at the Montreal Olympics (1976).
Avinash Sable has made history as the first Indian man to qualify for the 3000m steeplechase final at the Paris Olympics on August 5, 2024.
Avinash Sable, who already has an Asian Games gold and Commonwealth Games silver to his name, will want to do far more than just set the pace.
Avinash Sable showed that he's peaking at the right time before the Paris Olympics as he broke his own 3000m steeplechase national record while finishing sixth at the prestigious Diamond League meet, clocking 8 minute and 9.91 seconds on Sunday. The 29-year-old Sable bettered his earlier mark of 8:11.20, which he had clocked in 2022, by around one and a half seconds. With this performance, Sable returned to his record-breaking ways after he smashed his own national mark two years ago while winning a silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
The 29-year-old national record holder thus earned India its first gold medal in athletics at the ongoing Games, completing the race in 8:19.50 seconds.
7 Asian Games 2023 track and field finals are scheduled between 4.30 pm and 6.45 pm today, including Avinash Sable's 3000 m steeplechase event and Jyothi Yarraji's Women's 100m hurdles final.
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Sable clocked 8 minute and 22.24 seconds to finish seventh in heat number one.
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The 28-year-old Olympian, who claimed the silver medal in 3000 m steeplechase at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in August, had become the first Indian to complete the half-marathon in under 61 minutes finishing in a sensational 60:30 for the Indian crown and 10th place overall two years ago.
61 medals, including 22 gold. Plus, a number of young players across disciplines broke new ground—this is India's best performance in the Commonwealth Games to date.
Avinash Sable did altitude training in the Nilgiris, interval training, strength-training including pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups and lunges, and long-distance running over 12 sessions each week.
Avinash Sable's best time, 8:12:48 minutes, the national record, would have won him the silver in every edition of the CWG except for the 2018 Gold Coast Games, where he would have finished 5th.