Doha [Qatar], May 4 (ANI): The 2023 Wanda Diamond League will begin on the Qatar Sports Club in Doha, on Friday. India’s first observe and area Olympic champion and first Indian ever to win a Diamond Trophy, Neeraj Chopra, will function amongst a number of champions to function in probably the most prestigious athletics occasions.
The Doha meet can even see Commonwealth Games triple bounce champion Eldhose Paul compete in a area together with reigning Olympic champion Pedro Pichardo from Portugal and reigning Diamond League winner Andy Diaz Hernandez from Cuba. The 2023 Wanda Diamond League might be stay on JioCinema and Sports18.
For the primary time, Chopra might be seen in motion since his sensational 88.44m throw that clinched the 2022 Diamond Trophy in Zurich. His title defence can have a well-recognized forged of opponents within the season-opening meet.
Reigning world champion and 2022 Doha meet winner Anderson Peters from Grenada (PB: 93.07m), Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch from the Czech Republic (PB: 90.88m), European champion Julian Weber from Germany (PB: 89.54m), and former Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago (PB: 90.16m), might be Chopra’s greatest opponents this season.
The Diamond League is observe and area’s most prestigious collection sitting within the high tier of World Athletics’ one-day assembly competitions. The 2023 Diamond League contains 13 conferences, beginning with the Doha occasion main as much as the two-day Diamond League Final in Eugene on September 16-Seventeenth.
Apart from Chopra, a number of different Olympic and World champions might be a part of the season opener in Doha. The ladies’s 100m will function five-time Olympic medallist Shericka Jackson from Jamaica, former 200m world champion Dina Asher-Smith from Great Britain, and a gifted American quartet that includes Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiner, Twanisha Terry and Sha’Carri Richardson.
The 200m males’s race will function reigning Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse from Canada, 400m world champion Michael Norman from the USA, 100m world champion and Olympic silver medallist Fred Kerley from the USA, and Olympic and world 200m silver medallist Kenny Bednarek from the USA in a aggressive area. (ANI)