India’s Avinash Sable finished a creditable fifth at the prestigious Diamond League Meet here thereby shattering his own 3,000m steeplechase national record for the eighth time.

The army man from a humble family in the Beed district of Maharashtra clocked 8:12.48 in a high-quality field late on Sunday night to shave off more than three seconds than his own previous national record of 8:16.21 which he ran at the Indian Grand Prix in Thiruvananthapuram in March.