New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): Star Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is ready to start his 2026 athletics season on the Doha Diamond League 2026 in Qatar on Friday, after organisers confirmed his inclusion within the competitors’s entry checklist launched on Monday, in line with Olympics.com.
The Doha occasion will probably be Chopra’s first competitors of the 2026 season after spending the low season recovering from a again harm throughout a coaching camp in Switzerland. His final aggressive look got here on the World Athletics Championships 2025 in Tokyo final September.
Confirmation of Chopra’s participation comes shortly after he was provisionally named in India’s 32-member athletics squad for the Commonwealth Games 2026.
This will mark Chopra’s fourth straight look on the Doha leg of the Diamond League. The two-time Olympic medallist received the Doha meet in 2023 with a throw of 88.67m, completed second in 2024 with 88.36m, and set a nationwide file of 90.23m final 12 months, although he was edged into second place by Julian Weber.
The males’s javelin competitors in Doha is anticipated to characteristic a robust discipline. While Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem has been withdrawn after initially being listed, Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage, the present world chief, will compete after producing a outstanding 92.62m throw on the Rome Diamond League 2026 earlier this month.
That efficiency moved Pathirage to eighth on the all-time world checklist and made him the second-best Asian performer in historical past behind Nadeem’s 92.97m effort on the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The discipline can even embody reigning world champion Keshorn Walcott, former world champions Anderson Peters and Julius Yego, in addition to Curtis Thompson and Olympic and world silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch.
The Doha meet is the seventh cease on the 2026 Diamond League circuit, which is able to conclude with the season finale in Brussels on September 4 and 5. (ANI)