Avinash Sable created history by becoming the first Indian to qualify for the men’s 3000m steeplechase final at the Paris Olympics on Monday night. 

Indian sports lovers are now hoping for Sable, 29, to end up with a medal on Thursday night. Mandwa-based Sable’s mother Vaishali and her husband Mukund (farmers in a small village of Beed district) are hopeful that their son will win India’s first gold in track and field.