New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI): The sixth leg of the 2023 Wanda Diamond League will likely be held on the Athletissima in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Friday. Olympic and reigning Diamond League champion Neeraj Chopra who has a private better of 89.94 metres will look to proceed his spectacular run after ending first within the males’s Javelin on the Doha assembly.
Chopra will likely be joined by fellow Indian lengthy jumper Murali Sreeshankar (PB: 8.41m). His earlier look within the collection got here in Paris, the place he completed third with an 8.09m bounce. Earlier this 12 months, Sreeshankar had additionally jumped 8.41m on the National Inter-State Athletics Championships to qualify for the World Championships. This was the second-best bounce of the season globally, solely after compatriot Jeswin Aldrin’s 8.42m.
Sreeshankar will go up towards Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou (PB: 8.60m) and Simon Ehammer (PB: 8.45m). The long-jump entry checklist contains 2019 World Champion Tajay Gayle (PB: 8.69m) and Yuki Hashioka (PB: 8.36m).
The motion will likely be reside on JioCinema and Sports18.
Chopra is coming into the occasion because the chief within the Javelin standings, scoring eight factors and beating out the sector together with his spectacular 88.67m throw in Doha, a distance he’ll look to raised in Lausanne. Chopra’s competitors contains Anderson Peters from Grenada, (PB: 93.07m), Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Jakub Vadlejch from the Czech Republic (PB: 90.88m), Johannes Vetter from Germany (PB: 97.76m), and former Olympic medalist Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago (PB: 90.16m).
Neeraj is making a comeback after struggling a muscle pressure he suffered throughout coaching final month because of which he withdrew from the FBK Games within the Netherlands on June 4 and the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland on June 13. Additionally, the 25-year-old skipped the just-finished Bhubaneswar National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships.
Neeraj was additionally not named within the 54-member Indian crew introduced for the Asian Athletics Championships 2023. (ANI)