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Avinash Sable clocked 8 minute 29.96 second to finish near the bottom. Seventeen runners completed the race while three did not finish. Reigning Olympic and world champion El Bakkali Soufiane (8:04.29) of Morocco won the race. read more
Silesia (Poland): India’s top 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable finished a disappointing 14th in the Silesia Diamond League as he failed to impress in a world class field in Poland’s Silesia on Sunday.
The 29-year-old reigning Asian Games champion clocked 8 minute 29.96 second to finish near the bottom. Seventeen runners completed the race while three did not finish. Reigning Olympic and world champion El Bakkali Soufiane (8:04.29) of Morocco won the race while Amos Serem (8:04.29) of Kenya and Samuel Firewu (8:04.34) of Ethiopia were second and third respectively.
The top-six finishers in the Paris Olympics earlier this year competed in Poland. In the Paris Diamond League last month, Sable had shattered his own national record while finishing sixth with a time of 8:09.91.
He had become the first Indian man to qualify for the Olympics 3000m steeplechase finals during the Paris Games earlier this month, where he finished 11th with a time of 8:14.18.
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