Avinash Sable Biography
Avinash Mukund Sable is an Indian track and field athlete specializing in the 3000-meter steeplechase. Avinash Mukund was born on September 13, of the year 1994. Having won the silver medal in the Commonwealth Games of the year 2022, Avinash Mukund set the national record there at 8:11.20. Avinash Mukund has now accomplished this kind of achievement nine times.
Early Life
Sable was born on September 13, of the year 1994, into a farming family in Mandwa, Maharashtra’s Beed district. Avinash Mukund began running or walking the 6 km (3.7 mi) trip between home and school when he was just six years old because his village lacked a transport system. Avinash Mukund enlisted in the Indian Army’s 5 Mahar regiment after completing his 12th-grade year, receiving assignments to the Siachen Glacier in 2013–2014, the deserts of north-western Rajasthan, and Sikkim starting in 2015.
Due to the pressure from his coworkers, Avinash Mukund initially competed in inter-army cross country running in 2015 before deciding to move to steeplechase with coach Amrish Kumar. Sable, who was overweight, managed to reduce 20 kg (44 lb) in three months, before attending the national camp where he was taught by Nikolai Snesarev. Due to the fact that Snesarev’s training schedule did not “suit” him, Sable returned to coaching Kumar in the year 2018.
Track and Field Career
Avinash Sable, a Kenyan steeplechaser, broke the 37-year-old national record of 8:30.88 held by Gopal Saini at the National Open Championships of the year 2018 in the city of Bhubaneswar. Avinash Sable set a new national record of 8:28.94 in the month of March of the year 2019, qualifying for the Asian Athletics Championships of the year 2019 and World Athletics Championships of the year 2019.
Sable won the silver medal at the 2019 Asian Athletics Championships in the capital city of Qatar, i.e. Doha, his debut international event. In the month of October of the year 2019, Avinash Sable broke his own national record at the World Championships, running 8:25.23 in the heats.
After a successful appeal by the Athletics Federation of India, Sable was included in the final and became the first Indian to qualify for the 3000-meter steeplechase final at the World Championships. Avinash Sable further improved the national record to 8:21.37 in the final, finishing 13th out of 16 runners and qualifying for the Summer Olympics of the year 2020.
In the year 2022, Sable set two further national records, first at the Indian Grand Prix (8:16.21) and then at the Meeting International Mohamed VI (8:12.48), placing 5th. Avinash Sable won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games of the year 2022 with a new national record time of 8:11.20, becoming the first time an athlete from outside Kenya had won a medal in men’s 3000 meters steeplechase at the Commonwealth Games since the year 1994.
Sable finished 35th at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships of the year 2023, clocking 31:43 over the 10km distance in a field of over 100 athletes.
Bio Data
Full name: Avinash Mukund Sable
Born: 13 September 1994
Age: 28 Years
Birth Place: Mandwa, Beed district, Maharashtra, India
Military career
Allegiance: India
Service/branch: Indian Army
Rank: Naib Subedar
Unit: Mahar Regiment
Sport Details
Sport: Track and field
Event(s): 3000 meters steeplechase
Achievements and titles of Avinash Mukund Sable
Personal best(s):
3000 m steeplechase: 8:11.20 NR (In Birmingham, of the year 2022)
5000 m: 13:25.65 NR (In San Juan Capistrano, of the year 2022)
10K: 30:36 (In Bengaluru, of the year 2019)
Half marathon: 1:00:30 (In New Delhi, of the year 2020)
25K: 1:15:17 (In Kolkata, of the year 2017)
