Avinash Sable in action at CWG 2022
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Avinash Sable won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the 3000m steeplechase event.
- He broke his own national record at the event.
- Sable is also the first Non-Kenyan athlete to win a medal in steeplechase in the last six Commonwealth Games
However, the record-breaking streak did not just end there for Avinash Sable. He finished his race with a timing of 8:11.2, thus registering a new personal best timing and also creating a new national record timing. He finished just 0.05 seconds behind gold medallist Abraham Kibiwot of Kenya. In fact, Sable is also the first Non-Kenyan athlete to win a medal in the steeplechase in the last six Commonwealth Games.
Sable was born on September 13, 1994, in the village of Mandwa in Maharashtra’s Beed district to a family of farmers, and had to survive his childhood amid poverty. He used to walk 6 kms everyday to school, and it is perhaps this intensity that built the runner in him.
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Avinash Sable finished 11th in the World Athletics Championships earlier this year, and hence this win can be termed as a sort of redemption for the steeplechase athlete.
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