Ace 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable on Sunday turned into the primary Indian observe athlete to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after completing 6th together with his 2d career-best time within the Silesia Diamond League meet in Silesia, Poland.
The 28-year-old Sable clocked 8 mins 11:63 seconds, simply outdoor her nationwide document time of 8:11.20, however that breached the Paris Olympics qualifying mark of 8:15.00 by means of a good margin.
The Olympic qualification length started on July 1, 2023 and can proceed until June 30, 2024.
Moroccan global and Olympic champion El Bakkali Soufiane received the race in meet document time 8:03.16 whilst Kenyans Abraham Kibiwot (8:08.03) and Leonard Kipkemoi Bett (8:09.45) completed 2d and 3rd respectively.
Sable turned into the 6th Indian and primary observe athlete from the rustic to qualify for the Paris Olympics.
He joins 4 20km race walkers — Akshadeep Singh, Vikas Singh and Paramjeet Singh Bisht in males’s match and Priyanka Goswami in girls’s match — and lengthy jumper Murali Sreeshankar within the checklist of Indians who’ve certified for the Paris Olympics to this point.
The males’s and ladies’s race stroll is a street match within the Olympics whilst lengthy bounce is a box match. The 3000m steeplechase is administered on course.
This was once Sable’s 3rd Diamond League meet of the 12 months. The was once additionally the most efficient ever efficiency of Sable in a Diamond League leg relating to timing.
He had completed tenth in Rabat, Morocco with a time of 8:17.18 and 5th in Stockholm, clocking 8:21.88, previous this 12 months.
Last 12 months, he had clocked 8:12.48 to complete 5th in Rabat.
Sable has already certified for the World Championships (August 19-27) in Budapest, Hungary.