New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): World No.1 javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra won’t take part within the upcoming Ostrava Golden Spike 2023 athletics meet within the Czech Republic beginning on June 27, as per Olympics.com.
Neeraj is recovering from a muscle pressure he suffered throughout coaching final month on account 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 group introduced for the Asian Athletics Championships 2023 on Thursday.
Neeraj Chopra, who’s presently ranked first within the males’s javelin throw by World Athletics, is anticipated to compete on June 30 in Switzerland within the Lausanne Diamond League 2023.
The Ostrava Golden Spike is a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet and the organisers had earlier introduced Neeraj Chopra’s participation on this yr’s occasion.
The males’s javelin throw occasion on the Ostrava Golden Spike 2023 will function distinguished javelin throwers comparable to Grenada’s reigning world champion Anderson Peters and Jakub Vadlejch, the silver medallist from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. (ANI)