The 18-year-antique Khan ran eight minute forty five.12 2d to finish sixth in the heats.
India’s Sharuk Khan broke the country wide U20 record in 3000m steeplechase to qualify for the final with a 6th-vicinity end in his heat race at the World Athletics U20 Championships right here. The 18-year-antique Khan ran eight minute forty five.12 2d to finish sixth in warmness one late Wednesday night time and qualify for the very last to be held on August 31. First eight finishers in each of the two warmth races qualify for the very last.
The in advance countrywide U20 record in this event was inside the name of nineteen-12 months-vintage Rajesh of Rajasthan who had clocked eight:50.12sec while finishing fourth at the Federation Cup National Senior Championships in May in Bhubaneswar.
Khan’s earlier private best turned into eight:51.75sec, which he had clocked even as triumphing a silver at the Asian U20 Championships in Korea in June ultimate year.
It become additionally a national report of that point before Rajesh bettered it.
Another Indian, Jay Kumar qualified for the men’s 400m very last after completing 0.33 in his semifinal warmth race with a non-public nice time of 46.Ninety six seconds.
