India’s Avinash Sable finished a creditable fifth in the men’s 3000m steeplechase event of the Xiamen leg Diamond League Meeting on Saturday to qualify for the grand finale in Eugene, USA, later this month.

Sable, 28, who had failed to qualify for the final round in the World Championships in Hungary last month, clocked 8 minutes, 16.27 seconds, well below his season’s best of 8:11.63 and national record time of 8:11.20.