Avinash Sable to compete in Stockholm Diamond League 3000m steeplechase

India’s prime 3000m steeplechase runner Avinash Sable will compete in his second Diamond League of the season on the Stockholm leg on Sunday, the place he would look to raised his personal efficiency from final occasion.

The 28-year-old Sable had completed tenth, clocking a below-par 8:17.18 seconds, on the Diamond League assembly in Rabat, Morocco on May 28 in his solely 3000m steeplechase race of the 12 months to date. He can be aiming to enhance his timing right here.

The 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medallist Sable, who has been coaching overseas to organize for the August 19 to 27 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, has clocked a private finest time of 8:11.20, which can be the nationwide document.

Olympic and world champion Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco can be focusing on extra Diamond League success following his win on residence turf in Rabat with the season’s second finest time of seven:56.68.

Other medal contenders might be 2019 Diamond League champion Getnet Wale of Ethiopia, the third finest this season with a time of 8:05.15, and 2022 Commonwealth Games champion Abraham Kibiwot of Kenya (SB: 8:05.51), who had completed third in Rabat Diamond League.

Sable was given exemption from collaborating within the National Inter-State Championships in Bhubaneswar final month to organize for the World Championships.

He was additionally not named within the Indian group for the Asian Championships (July 12-16) in Thailand. He will prepare in Switzerland in August earlier than the World Championships.