Asian Games gold medallist 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable has undergone ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) surgery after suffering the injury during the Monaco Diamond League earlier this month and the Indian will be ruled out of World Athletics Championships in September. 

He went under the knife in a Mumbai hospital. The procedure was performed under the care of Dr Dinshaw Pardiwala.

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