Emotional Avinash Sable braves Snesarev s loss to set new national record
Avinash Sable broke his own national record in 3000m steeplechase at the Federation Cup in Patiala on Wednesday.
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The electric timer at the NIS Patiala flashed 8:20.20, a new national record in the men s 3000m steeplechase event. Avinash Sable had erased his own record of 8:21.37 and set the best time so far this year. Yet you wouldn t have known that by Sable s reaction: No celebration, just the routine stopping of the watch he hand times himself with. How could he celebrate? asked his coach Amrish Kumar, watching at a distance.