Florence [India], June 1 (ANI): Indian triple jumper Abdulla Aboobacker, a Commonwealth Games 2022 silver medallist, is ready to compete on the Florence Diamond League 2023 in Italy on Friday.
Abdulla Aboobacker is making his debut within the Diamond League. He can be all boosted up as he’s coming to the occasion after successful a bronze medal on the Montreuil International Meeting 2023 in France. He clinched the bronze along with his season-best soar of 16.80m.
The Florence leg of the Diamond League is also called Pietro Mennea Golden Gala. Pietro Mennea was an Italian dash legend who gained the 200m gold medal on the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games. Aboobacker will face robust competitors comparable to London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic champion Christian Taylor of the USA and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso within the occasion.
Hugues Fabrice Zango had competed at Doha Diamond League and clinched silver with a world-leading effort of 17.81m. Zango additionally gained the triple soar occasion on the Montreuil assembly as per Olympics.com.
Reigning Olympic triple soar champion Pedro Pichardo of Portugal who had gained gold at Doha with a 17.91m won’t compete within the males’s triple soar occasion. However, Andy Diaz Hernandez from Cuba who had gained third place in Doha with a 17.80m leap will take part within the occasion.
Aboobacker has 17.19m as his private greatest which he had achieved final yr in Bhubaneshwar. Praveen Chithravel has the nationwide report within the males’s triple soar with 17.37m in Cuba earlier this yr. (ANI)