New Delhi: India's Avinash Sable has secured tickets for next year's Tokyo Olympics in the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar's capital. He has achieved this goal by blasting his own national record in three thousand meter steeplechase. In this championship, he took 8 minutes 21.37 seconds. While the time to qualify for the Olympics is 8 minutes 22 seconds. He finished 13th in the championship. Avinash has broken his own national record twice in the last three days.

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Earlier in the first round heats, he had set a national record with a time of eight minutes 25.23 seconds, which he broke in the final race. However, Avinash remained far behind compared to the time of medal winners. He came in 13th position out of 15. Olympic champion Kenya's Consiplus Kipruto won the gold medal with a time of 8 minutes 01.35 seconds.

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He was 20 seconds faster than Avinash. While Ethiopia's Lamkhe Girma was second with 8 minutes 01.36 and a player of Morocco was third with 8 minutes 03.76 seconds. 25-year-old Avinash hails from Mandwa, Maharashtra. His journey from landing in the race to obtaining the Olympic ticket has been quite dramatic.

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