India's top sprinter Avinash Sable has also broken a 30-year-old national record in the men's 5000m category at the ongoing South Running Track Meet in California, USA. Sable holds the national record of 3000m steeplechase. Sable, who played in the Tokyo Olympics, clocked 13 minutes 25.65 seconds in the United States and has come in at number 12.
The 27-year-old soldier from the Beed district of Maharashtra broke Bahadur Prasad's record of 13 minutes 29.70 seconds which he had set in Birmingham in 1992. Norway's Jacob Injebritsen, who won the 1500m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, has won the race in 13 minutes 02.03 seconds. Sable has also qualified for the World Championships to be held in Eugene, the USA from July 15 to 24.
Indian Athletics head coach Radhakrishnan Nair has said that we are thinking of fielding Avinash in the Asian Games in both the 3000 and 5000 metres. The Asian Games, scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 10 to 15, have been postponed indefinitely due to the rise in Covid cases.
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