“I thought someone would take up the lead but no one did. I too slowed down and was caught in the bunch and didn’t know how to get out. Even on the last lap I was hopeful of a medal,” said India's best track medal hope Sable in the mixed zone after the race.
In his first outdoor meet of the season, high jumper Tejaswin Shankar won the event at the Shocker Spring Invitational athletics competition in Wichita, Kansas.
The lengthy 10-year ban slapped on Kenyan marathoner Titus Ekiru by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has exposed another dimension to the doping crisis that has plagued the country's athletics for almost a decade.
4x400 relay team also bagged yellow medal as medal rush continued for India
It turned out to be a silver day for India as Ancy Sojan Edappilly, steeple chaser Parul Chaudhary and 4x400m mixed team bagged a silver medal in the track and field events of the Asian Games at Hangzhou on Monday.
For India who overall finished third, this was their joint-highest tally at the Asian championships alongside Bhubaneswar 2017 where they had won nine gold, six silver and 12 bronze.
Long Jumper Murali bags silver qualifies for Paris Olympics
Commonwealth Games Silver medalist Avinash Sable clocked 8:21.88 to finish fifth in the 3000m steeplechase event at the Stockholm Diamond League.
Last year, Neeraj Chopra created history by becoming the first Indian to win the prestigious Diamond League finals in Eugene, USA.
Amiya Kumar Mallick, who holds the national record of 10.26s, finished last in the eight-man final with a timing of 10.58s.
