Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: May 04, 2023, 12:08 IST
Olympic Javelin Throw gold medallist Neeraj Chopra (Twitter)
Neeraj Chopra will return to motion, forward of a packed season, in the 2023 Diamond League on the Qatar Sports Club in Doha
Neeraj Chopra, India’s first Olympic gold medallist in monitor and area and first Indian ever to win a Diamond Trophy, will begin the defence of his javelin throw title in the primary occasion of the 2023 Diamond League on the Qatar Sports Club in Doha, on Friday.
Chopra will likely be amongst a bunch of champions to function in one of the crucial prestigious athletics occasions of the season.
The Doha meet may also see Commonwealth Games triple soar champion Eldhose Paul compete in a area together with reigning Olympic champion Pedro Pichardo from Portugal and reigning Diamond League winner Andy Diaz Hernandez from Cuba.
For the primary time, Chopra will likely be seen in motion since his sensational 88.44m throw that clinched the 2022 Diamond Trophy in Zurich. His title defence can have a well-recognized solid of opponents in the season-opening meet.
Reigning world champion and 2022 Doha meet winner Anderson Peters from Grenada (PB: 93.07m), Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch from the Czech Republic (PB: 90.88m), European champion Julian Weber from Germany (PB: 89.54m), and former Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago (PB: 90.16m), will likely be Chopra’s greatest opponents this season, the broadcasters knowledgeable in a launch on Thursday.
Apart from Chopra, a number of different Olympic and World champions will likely be a part of the season opener in Doha. The girls’s 100m will function five-time Olympic medallist Shericka Jackson from Jamaica, former 200m world champion Dina Asher-Smith from Great Britain, and a proficient American quartet that includes Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiner, Twanisha Terry, and Sha’Carri Richardson.
The 200m males’s race will function reigning Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse from Canada, 400m world champion Michael Norman from the USA, 100m world champion and Olympic silver medallist Fred Kerley from the USA, and Olympic and world 200m silver medallist Kenny Bednarek from the USA in a aggressive area.
The annual Diamond League is monitor and area’s most prestigious sequence sitting in the highest tier of World Athletics’ one-day assembly competitions. The 2023 Diamond League includes 13 conferences, beginning with the Doha occasion main up to the two-day Diamond League Final in Eugene on September 16-Seventeenth.
In India, the 2023 Diamond League will likely be broadcast reside on JioCinema and Sports18.
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