Zurich [Switzerland], August 30 (ANI): Javelin throw World champion Neeraj Chopra and lengthy jumper Murali Sreeshankar would be the two Indian athletes in motion on the Zurich Diamond League 2023 in Switzerland on Thursday.
The Zurich meet also referred to as the Weltklasse Zurich, is the eleventh leg of the Diamond League 2023 season, as per Olympics.com.
Reigning Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra will go into the Zurich meet after profitable a historic gold medal on the World Athletics Championships 2023 final week, turning into the primary Indian to be topped world champion in any observe and subject class.
The 25-year-old Chopra, who holds the javelin throw nationwide document of 89.94m, can be the reigning Diamond League males’s javelin throw champion. Interestingly, the Indian javelin ace received the title final yr on the similar Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, the place he might be competing on Thursday. Neeraj Chopra received the primary two Diamond League javelin occasions this season in Doha and Lausanne however sat out the Monaco leg in July.
Chopra is at present third within the males’s javelin throw qualifying standings for the Diamond League 2023 finals with 16 factors. Tokyo 2020 Olympics silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic and Germany’s Julian Weber, are positioned first and second with 21 and 19 factors, respectively.
The high eight after all of the legs will make the finals in Eugene.
At Zurich, Neeraj Chopra is prone to face a world-class 10-man subject, which incorporates former world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada, Jakub Vadlejch and Julian Weber.
Murali Sreeshankar might be competing in his third lengthy leap occasion of the 2023 Diamond League season. The 24-year-old completed third and fifth on the Paris and Lausanne legs, respectively.
Heading into Zurich Diamond League 2023, Sreeshankar placed on a disappointing present on the World Athletics Championships 2023, failing to make the ultimate.
Sreeshankar, who has a private better of 8.41m, will compete towards the likes of Greece’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist Miltiadis Tentoglou, who can be the reigning Diamond League and world champion. The 10-man subject in Zurich may even embrace dwelling favorite Simon Ehammer, the 2022 world championships bronze medallist. Diamond League is an annual occasion comprising a collection of top-tier observe and subject competitions organised by World Athletics. The Diamond League remaining might be held in Eugene, USA on September 16 and September 17. (ANI)