Avinash Sable qualifies for 2024 Paris Olympics after ending sixth in Diamond League | Extra sports activities Information – Occasions of India

NEW DELHI: Star 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable on Sunday certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Sable, a nationwide champion, clocked Eight minute 11:63 seconds, simply outdoors his nationwide file time of 8:11.20, however that breached the Paris Olympics qualifying mark of 8:15.00 by a good margin.
Sable certified for the Paris Video games after ending sixth within the Silesia Diamond League meet.
The Olympics qualification interval started on July 30 and can proceed until June 30, 2024.
He joins 4 20km race walkers — Akshadeep Singh, Vikas Singh and Paramjeet Singh Bisht in males’s occasion and Priyanka Goswami in girls’s occasion — and lengthy jumper Murali Sreeshankar within the checklist of Indians who’ve certified for the Paris Olympics up to now.
Sable has already certified for the World Championships (August 19-27) in Budapest, Hungary.

(With inputs from PTI)