Avinash Sable clocked a timing of 8:31.75 in the finals of 3000m steeplechase event at the World Athletics Championship 2022.
Avinash Sable (in blue) had finished third during the Qualifying heat of the World Athletics Championships. AFP
India’s Avinash Sable finished 11th in the men’s 3000m steeplechase event at the World Athletics Championship 2022 in Hayward Field, Oregon.
Sable clocked a timing of 8:31.75 in the finals, while he had finished third in his heat with a timing of 8:18.75 to qualify for the main race of the men’s 3000m steeplechase.
It was a slow race overall as Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali of Morroco won the race with a timing of 8:25.13. Lamecha Girma of Ethpisa who won the silver at the 2020 Olympics came second with a timing of 8:26.01. Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto, who won the world championship in 2019, came third and clocked a timing of 8:27.92.
Sable, 11th place finish in the finals however is an improvement on his 2019 performance at the Worlds where he had finished 13th with a timing of 8:21.37.
The 27-year-old Maharashtra athlete also holds the national record in 3000m steeplechase with timing of 8.12:48, which he achieved at the Rabat Diamond League in June.
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