India’s main javelin throwers, together with Jakarta Asian Games champion and Olympic sure Neeraj Chopra, will miss the Muller Grand Prix in Gateshead, Great Britain, this month due to pandemic.
“We should not going to compete in Great Britain as European nations aren’t issuing visas due to second wave of Covid-19 pandemic in India. Javelin throwers have been supposed to go to Turkey for coaching within the final week of April, however the coaching stint was postponed as there was a 15-day quarantine rule for Indians,” one of the athletes told IANS.
The Gateshead event, scheduled to be held on May 23, is part of the highly competitive Diamond League series sanctioned by World Athletics.
On Wednesday, Chopra, 23, raised a concern of missing international competitions due to pandemic.
“Due to pandemic we couldn’t compete in 2020. We aren’t getting opportunities to compete this year too due to Covid-19. Lack of international exposure is hurting us,” Chopra stated throughout a web based media interplay.
Javelin is among the seven occasions within the males’s class scheduled for the one-day Gateshead meet. The 200m, 1500m, 5000m and 3000m steeplechase, lengthy leap and pole vault are different occasions for males.
Competitions within the ladies’s group will likely be carried out in 100m 400m, 1500m 100mh, excessive leap, triple leap and shot put.
Not all Indians athletes are eligible to compete within the collection of Diamond League. But Chopra, due to his excellent performances, has participated previously. He might have gotten entry this season too due to his nationwide file of 88.07m, set in March.
Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar, whose private finest is 8.26m, and center distance runner Avinash Sable too might have gotten entries for May 23 competitors. Sable has certified in males’s 3000m steeplechase for the Tokyo Olympics, beginning July 23
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