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Paris Diamond League: Avinash Sable breaks national record, Kishore Jena finish eighth- Highlights
Get all the highlights from the Paris Diamond League, Kishore Jena and Avinash Sable participated.
Avinash Sable set a new national record in the men's 3000m steeplechase, finishing sixth with a time of 8:09.91. This surpassed his previous best of 8:11.20 from the 2022 Commonwealth Games, where he won silver.
Kishore crawled his way to finish 8th in the Javelin, throwing 78.10m as his best throw.
As it happened:
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Rounding Up!
Avinash Sable had earlier said, " I wanted to peak at the right time." and he did.
Avinash bettered his own National Record to 8:09.91s and finished 6th in the race.
In the absence of Neeraj, Kishore crawled his way to finish 8th in the Javelin, throwing 78.10m as his best throw.
Apart from this, we saw World Records being broken, the athletes are peaking at the right time.
It was the perfect warm-up for the Olympic bound athletes.
- 7 July 2024 4:05 PM GMT
Jena finishes eighth
Kishore's first-round throw of 78.10m remained his best for the day.
Kishore was unable to cross his season's best 80.84m.
- 7 July 2024 3:57 PM GMT
WORLD RECORD ALERT - 1500m Women
2-time-Olympic Champion Faith Kipyegon of Kenya broke her own WR in 1500m clocking 3:49.04.
- 7 July 2024 3:55 PM GMT
Julian Weber wins the Paris Diamond League
The experienced German threw 85.91m in the fifth round of throws marking him as the winner.
Anderson Peter's fifth throw of 85.19m took him over Valdejch's 85.04m ending his campaign as the runner-up
While Jakub Valdejch finished 3rd with his 2 back to back throws of 85.04m
Kishore Jena finished 8th
- 7 July 2024 3:45 PM GMT
Hopes diminishing for Jena
An underwhelming throw of 76.57m in the fifth throw, sits at 8th
- 7 July 2024 3:38 PM GMT
Javelin Trivia!
DO YOU KNOW the World Record for Javelin was 104.80 to Uwe Hohn of Germany
But in 1986, the men's javelin design was changed to reduce throw distances and improve safety by moving the center of gravity forward by 4 cm and roughening the grip. These modifications made the javelin fly lower and land more steeply. The women's javelin saw similar changes in 1999.
The current world record holder with the new javelin design is Jan Železný with 98.48m
- 7 July 2024 3:31 PM GMT
Jakub Vadlejch breaches 85 metres
Tokyo Olympics Silver Medalist jumps from fourth to first with an 85.04m throw