Lausanne [Switzerland], August 4 (ANI): Former Olympic and World Championship gold medalist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra shall be competing on the Lausanne Diamond League on August 21, confirmed the organisers on Monday.
The meet, which is also referred to as the ‘Athletissima’, would be the Indian javelin legend’s fourth look in Lausanne. Neeraj would head into the occasion with a Commonwealth Games silver, with a greatest throw of 85.83 m, nonetheless eyeing a return to his high type, as per Olympics.com.
The 28-year-old Indian athlete secured a win on the occasion in 2022, with an enormous throw of 89.08 m and adopted it with a profitable title defence within the subsequent version with a throw of 87.66. In the 2024 version of the Lausanne Diamond League, he completed runners-up regardless of an unimaginable 89.49 m throw.
The 2026 version of the competitors may function one of many strongest fields within the coming years, with newly-crowned CWG champion (with greatest throw of 89.75 m) and present season’s world chief Rumesh Pathirage of Sri Lanka main the sector.
Among the opposite stars could be the Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem from Pakistan, bringing within the ‘India versus Pakistan’ flavour to the occasion, whereas Two-time world champion Anderson Peters, Germany’s Thomas Rohler and Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago shall be seen lighting up the monitor as effectively.
The Lausanne Diamond League shall be Neeraj’s third competitors of the calendar 12 months, after a fourth-place end within the Doha Diamond League in June and a CWG silver. This season marks Neeraj’s return to motion after a prolonged damage lay-off, taking a while off after the Tokyo version of the World Athletics Championships, the place he completed in eighth spot. His season greatest throw got here throughout the CWG in Glasgow.
Lausanne has been a contented looking floor for Neeraj and will assist him finish the title drought, having not topped the rostrum for the reason that Neeraj Chopra Classic at house in July 2025. Since then, his greatest outcomes have been a runner-up spot within the Diamond League season remaining 2025 and the CWG 2026 silver.
Lausanne Diamond League 2026 javelin throw entry list-Anderson Peters (Grenada)-Arshad Nadeem (Pakistan)-Curtis Thompson (USA)-Jakub Vadlejch (Czechia)-Julian Weber (Germany)-Keshorn Walcott (Trinidad and Tobago)-Neeraj Chopra (India)-Rumesh Pathirage (Sri Lanka)-Simon Wieland (Switzerland)-Thomas Rohler (Germany). (ANI)