Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will start his season at the Diamond League assembly in Doha on May 5, as one of many prime attracts in a star-studded discipline.
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The 25-year-old Chopra, the reigning Diamond League champion after successful the grand finale in September final, will be a part of world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada and Olympic silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic within the first meet of the 14-leg one-day collection of the season.
Chopra, who has a private better of 89.94m which he achieved whereas ending second at final 12 months’s Stockholm Diamond League assembly, is presently coaching in Turkiye. He will likely be there until April 31.
Due to an damage, the Indian famous person missed the 2022 Doha Diamond League Meeting the place Peters despatched the spear to 93.07m, the fifth-longest throw in historical past, to win the title. World Championships bronze medallist Vadlejch had completed second with a private finest throw of 90.88m.
Alongside the embellished trio, the Doha Meeting may even see European champion Julian Weber of Germany, the Olympic and world fourth-place finisher with a better of 89.54m, former Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott (PB: 90.16m) of Trinidad & Tobago, former world champion and 2016 Olympic silver medallist Julius Yego (PB: 92.72m) of Kenya.
One of the targets for Chopra, the primary Indian Olympic gold medallist in observe and discipline, this 12 months will likely be to cross the 90m mark, the gold commonplace on the earth of javelin throw.
”I’m additionally getting nearer to the 90m mark, so it might imply rather a lot for me to break that barrier,” he mentioned.
“While last year was a good year for me with a new personal best, world silver medal, and the win of the Wanda Diamond League, this year brings new opportunities. My goal for this summer is the World Championships, alongside the Asian Games and the defence of my Wanda Diamond League title.” After scripting historical past at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Chopra received a silver within the 2022 World Championships in USA, the place Peters received gold, however failed to defend the Commonwealth Games gold, he had received in 2018, at the Birmingham version final 12 months due to an damage.
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He, nonetheless, recovered on time from the damage — which he had sustained through the World Championships — to win the Diamond League Finals in Switzerland.
”I’m at all times overwhelmed by the nice and cozy assist I get from Indians internationally and in Qatar that’s notably particular, so I’m wanting ahead to opening my 2023 Wanda Diamond League season in Doha alongside a bunch of unimaginable athletes, in entrance of a passionate crowd.” The 2023 Diamond League includes 14 conferences, beginning with Doha at the Qatar Sports Club on May 5 and concluding with a single remaining throughout two days in Eugene, USA (September 16-17).
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