Avinash Sable finishes 5th in prestigious Diamond League, breaks own national record for eighth time
Avinash Sable finished a creditable fifth at the prestigious Diamond League Meet here thereby shattering his own 3000m steeplechase national record for the eighth time. The 27-year-old army man from a humble family in the Beed district of Maharashtra clocked 8:12.48 in a high-quality field late Sunday night to shave off more than three seconds than his own previous national record of 8:16.21 which he ran at the Indian Grand Prix in Thiruvananthapuram in March. Local hero and Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Soufiane El Bakkali won the race in a meeting record and world lead of 7:58.28.
