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Detailed explanation-1: -Avinash Sable’s most recent mark and the standing men’s 3000m steeplechase national record is an 8:11.20 run he recorded at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham to win the silver medal. It was the third time in five months he bettered the national mark.

Detailed explanation-2: -History. This event has its origins in Britain; runners would race from one town’s steeple to the next, jumping obstacles such as streams and low walls. The current event can be traced to the two-mile steeplechases run at Oxford University in the mid-19th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sable is known for breaking his own 3000m steeplechase national record multiple times. He did it for the seventh time during the Indian Grand Prix 2 in Thiruvananthapuram in March with a time of 8:16.21s. He had also set a then national record of 8:18.12s during the Tokyo Olympics.