India's 3,000m steeplechase champion Avinash Sable, 28, is confident of breaking his own record of 8:11:20secs to win a medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Indian army athlete, a silver medallist at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games last August, recently returned from the United States where he trained at Colorado Springs under head coach Scott Simmons and alongside some of the world’s leading athletes including Tokyo Olympics 5,000m bronze medallist Paul Chelimo.  

Speaking to mid-day on the sidelines of The Sportstar awards at a city hotel on Monday, Sable explained why he feels confident of doing well at the Paris Games: “If you see the timings in the 3,000m steeplechase at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, there was a medal winner, who clocked eight minutes and 11 seconds [Kenyan Benjamin Kigen won bronze by clocking 8:11.45sec].