Athletics World Championships | Avinash Sable qualifies for Tokyo Olympics in men’s 3000m steeplechase
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India’s Avinash Sable has booked his berth for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 in the men’s 3000m steeplechase event. The steeplechaser got past his own national record for the second time in the championships but ended up at 13th place in the final race of the same event in Doha, Qatar.
Sable recorded a timing of 8:21.37 in the final of the steeplechase event at the World Championships and ended his excellent campaign at 13th place. In the process he qualified for the Tokyo Olympics as the qualifying mark for that was 8:22.00. Apart from that, he also broke his own national record of 8:25.23 that he had recorded in the first round of the heats of the Championships. In total, 15 athletes participated in the final of the event in Doha on Friday.
Kenya’s Olympic champion Conseslus Kipruto recorded 8:01.35 to win the gold medal in the event while Lamecha Girma (8:01.36) of Ethiopia and Soufiane Bakkali (8:03.76) of Morocco finished at the second and third positions respectively in the final.
Race-walker KT Irfan, who has already made it to the Tokyo Olympics, clocked 1:35:21 in the 20km walk event and ended up at the 27th place. Another Indian athlete Devendra Singh finished the walk at the 36th position last evening.
