BENGALURU: One of India's main hopes Avinash Sable faded away in the last 200 metres to crash out of the men's 3000m steeplechase after finishing seventh in Heat 1 on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday.
The Commonwealth Games silver medallist did everything right in the slow-paced race but lost steam after the last bend, clocking over 16 seconds in his last two 100m splits, even as Japan's Ryoma Aoki did a sub-14 in the final 100m to bag the fifth and last automatic berth in the final scheduled for Tuesday.