Diamond League Final: India’s 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable finishes ninth in 10-man field
Avinash Sable, who turned 30 on Friday, clocked eight minutes and 17.09 seconds in Brussels.
Brussels: National record holder 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable finished ninth within the season-ending Diamond League final with a below-par time on Friday. Birthday boy Sable, who turned 30 on Friday, clocked 8 minute and 17.09 seconds to complete ninth within the 10-man field in his debut DL final.
Amos Serem of Kenya emerged as the Diamond League champion with a time of 8:06.90, while reigning Olympic and world champion Soufiane El Bakkali (8:08.60) of Morocco turned into 2d within the season-ending finale. Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui of Tunisia turned into 0.33 with 8:09.sixty eight.
World champion and Paris Olympics silver medallist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra shall be in action on Saturday. Sable had finished eleventh within the Paris Olympic Games with a time of 8:14.18. He had finished 14th within the overall Diamond League standings with three points from two meetings.
But four athletes ranked higher than him — Lamecha Girma (injured) of Ethiopia, Geordie Beamish of New Zealand, Ryuji Mura of Japan and Hillary Bor of the US — pulled out, allowing him to sneak contained within the pinnacle 10 cut-off.
Five meetings out of the 14 within the Diamond League series across the sector this season had men’s 3000m steeplechase event. Reigning Asian Games champion Sable had finished sixth with a national record time of 8:09.ninety one — bettering his own earlier mark — within the Paris leg of the Diamond League on July 7.
He turned into 14th on the Silesia leg with a time of 8:29.ninety six on August 25. Every Diamond League season finale champion is awarded a ‘Diamond Trophy’, USD 30,000 prize money and a wild card for the World Athletics Championships.
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