Commonwealth Games triple leap champion Eldhose Paul shall be making his Diamond League debut in Doha on May 5.
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He is the Commonwealth Games champion, the man who stunned many as he grabbed the gold in Birmingham. But triple jumper Eldhose Paul is but to cross the 17m barrier underneath authorized wind situations and that’s one thing he want to obtain as quickly as attainable..
The Birmingham gold final August got here with a wind-assisted (+3.1) 17.03m and therefore won’t be counted as private finest. His finest underneath authorized wind situations was the 16.99m at the Federation Cup in Malappuram in April 2022.
Eldhose will get an opportunity to cross 17m when he competes in the Diamond League opener in Doha on May 5.
Optimising efficiency
“That will be my first Diamond League, I will be leaving on May 3,” Eldhose informed The Hindu from Bengaluru on Sunday. “I have not reached full peak but I expect a decent performance. The workouts are aimed at the Asian Games and World Championships, so I plan to give the maximum as per my current workouts. I’m looking at 17-plus, if the conditions there are ideal, that could come. But I will not be going all out, we are on load workout, if we go all out, there are chances of getting an injury. I will try to do the optimum as per my current workout level.”
Though the full listing of triple jumpers for the Doha Diamond League will not be but out, the competitors will see a few of the world’s finest. And that shall be a golden probability for the teenager. “If I do well, there will be more such big openings,” he stated.
Intense competitors
The 26-year-old from Kerala who was ninth at the World Championships in the US final July, feels the competitors for locations in the Indian group for this yr’s Asian Games shall be intense.
“Four of us (Abdulla Aboobacker, Praveen Chitravel and Karthik Unnikrishnan are the others) are almost at the same level. And unlike the Commonwealth Games, we can have only two athletes in the Asian Games team, so it will not be easy,” stated Eldhose.
