Silesia Diamond League 2024: Avinash Sable finishes 14th in 3000m steeplechase :- Avinash Sable’s personal best time, which he had recorded in July, was twenty seconds behind his current time.
A further failure to qualify for the Diamond League Final was experienced by the Indian player.
In Poland on Sunday, the Silesia Diamond League 2024 featured a men’s steeplechase competition. Avinash Sable, from India, competed in the event and finished in a disappointing 14th place.
Avinash Sable finished his second Diamond League competition of the 2024 athletics season with a time of 8:29.96 seconds. He had been in a position of being behind the leading pack from the beginning of the race.
Over the course of the 1200-meter race, he reached his highest point of 13th place, but ultimately settled for 14th place out of the 17 racers who finished the race.
A personal best was achieved by Sable, who is currently the defending champion of the Asian Games, when he finished sixth in the Paris Diamond League in July with a time of 8 minutes and 9.91 seconds. Moreover, it holds the record for the country of India.
Moroccan athlete Soufiane El Bakkali, who has won two Olympic titles, triumphed in the competition held in Silesia through a photo finish. She just prevailed over Kenyan athlete Amos Serem, who had won the silver medal in the African Games, to cross the finish line.
They both finished with a time of 8:04.29. Nevertheless, the Kenyan athlete’s season-best performance was three thousandths of a second slower than the Moroccan athlete’s fastest mark.
Just a few seconds behind them, Ethiopia’s Samuel Firewu, who is now the reigning champion of the African Games, finished in 8:04.34.
The Diamond League competition was held in Poland, and it featured the top six finishers from the Olympic Games held in Paris in 2024.
The final of the 3000-meter steeplechase competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics was completed by Sable with a time of 8:14.18.
The Indian athlete, who is 29 years old, was 20 seconds behind his personal best time when he competed in Silesia. If he had set that mark, he would have finished sixth in the Diamond League competition. At the time of the Paris 2024 Olympics, he would have finished in seventh position according to his timing.
The 3000-meter steeplechase was another event in which Avinash Sable finished 14th overall in the Diamond League 2024 standings. He earned three points for his performance. In a long-distance track event, reaching the Diamond League Final is only possible for the top ten athletes in the competition.
The fact that Geordie Beamish of New Zealand is currently ranked tenth in the standings with seven points indicates that in order for Sable to surpass the Kiwi, he would have required to finish in fourth place in Silesia, which would have awarded him five points.
In September of this year, the Diamond League Final will take place in Brussels, which is located in Belgium.