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New Delhi<\/strong>: Indian athlete Avinash Sable shattered his national record in the 3000m steeplechase during a sixth-place finish at the Paris Diamond League in the build-up to the upcoming Olympic Games 2024.<\/p>\n Sable set a new national record after clocking 8 minutes and 9.91 seconds, going past his previous record of 8:11.20, which he had clocked in 2022. This was the 10th national record-breaking performance from the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n The race was won by Abraham Sime of Ethiopia with a timing of 8:02.36 after a photo finish with Kenya\u2019s Amos Serem (8:02.36). Kenya\u2019s Abraham Kibiwot, who won the Gold medal in the Commonwealth Games 2022 \u2013 where Sable won Silver \u2013 came home third with a timing of 8:06.70.<\/p>\n Sable has run only two 3000m steeplechase races this season \u2013 one in Portland and the other in Panchkula (National Inter-State Championships). He was not at his best in both of them, having clocked 8:21.85 at Portland and 8:31.75 in the other one.<\/p>\n After winning the Panchkula race, Sable had said that he would amends for the errors he had made. \u201cI committed mistakes in the last two years. I had gone with good fitness in the two world championships (2022 and 2023) but could not do well at both. I want to make amends, hope that this Olympics will be my best,\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n \u201cI am starting my competition season late this time. I am doing something different this time. I will start peaking only this month,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Kishore Jena finished eighth in the Javelin final at the Paris Diamond League with a throw of 78.10m. His personal best is 87.54m. Jena had won a Silver medal at the Asian Games 2023 when Neeraj Chopra bagged the Gold medal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: Indian athlete Avinash Sable shattered his national record in the 3000m steeplechase during a sixth-place finish at the Paris Diamond League in the build-up to the upcoming Olympic Games 2024. Sable set a new national record after clocking 8 minutes and 9.91 seconds, going past his previous record of 8:11.20, which he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-01-at-7.20.58-PM.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33692,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33690\/revisions\/33692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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