Doha [Qatar], May 4 (ANI): Ahead of the Diamond League meet at Doha, 2020 Tokyo Olympics champion Neeraj Chopra mentioned that the occasion is legendary for its 90metre throws and he hoped to breach that mark to begin his season.
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 characteristic amongst a number of champions in one of the vital prestigious athletics occasions.
Speaking a day earlier than the occasion, Chopra hinted that he can certainly breach his report and contact the 90m mark.
“Doha is famous for 90m throws and hopefully tomorrow will be a great result for all,” Chopra mentioned on the press convention.
The Doha meet will even see Commonwealth Games triple leap 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.
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-known solid of opponents within the season-opening meet.
Reigning world champion and 2022 Doha meet winner Anderson Peters from Grenada (Personal Best: 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 largest opponents this season.
The Diamond League is observe and area’s most prestigious sequence 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 characteristic 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 characteristic 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)