3000m steeplechase sprinter Avinash Sable will join former champion Neeraj Chopra in the Diamond League final in Brussels. Sable is among the 12 athletes taking part in the 3000m steeplechase and is making his first appearance in the final.
Sable had finished 14th in the Diamond League standings after collecting three points from two matches. As four higher-ranked athletes – Lamecha Girma (injured) of Ethiopia, Geordie Beamish of New Zealand, Ryuji Mura of Japan and Hillary Bor of the USA – will not be competing in the final, Sable earned her entry into the final.
Sable competed in two of the five competitions. The 29-year-old finished sixth at the Paris stage of the Diamond League in July, clocking a national record time of 8:09.91, thereby improving his own mark.
The Diamond League final will be a two-day event taking place on September 13 and 14. The steeplechase event will take place on September 13 and the javelin event will take place the following day.
Sable placed 14th in the Silesian stage after clocking a time of 8:29.96 on August 25, weeks after the Paris Olympics. Sable had qualified for the Olympic final, becoming the first Indian to reach the 3000m steeplechase final at the Summer Games.
However, her final was far from what she would have hoped for. Sable finished 11th in the final at the Paris Games, with a time of 8:14.18.
Notably, Chopra reached the final after finishing fourth in the overall standings of the javelin event. Chopra earned 14 points from his two second-place finishes in Doha and Lausanne. Chopra has had the privilege of winning the Diamond League title by defeating a star-studded field in the 2022 final. He finished second in the final behind Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic.
Chopra took home the silver medal at the Paris Olympics with a throw of 89.45 metres. Arshad Nadeem had won the gold, throwing the javelin a monstrous distance of 92.97 metres.
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