New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Sachin Yadav is all set to make his debut within the Diamond League on the Rome leg of the elite athletics collection on June 4, whereas two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra is absent from the competitors’s entry listing.
Neeraj, who’s at the moment in Turkiye for coaching and rehabilitation, has but to start his 2026 season. His final look was in September on the Tokyo World Championships, the place, regardless of a again harm, he completed eighth, in keeping with Olympics.com.
With Neeraj lacking from the Rome occasion, focus will shift to Sachin Yadav, who options among the many eight athletes entered within the males’s javelin throw competitors.
The 26-year-old Sachin will likely be competing internationally for the primary time since his breakthrough outing ultimately yr’s World Championships, the place he secured fourth place with a private greatest effort of 86.27m, narrowly lacking a podium end. He had additionally clinched silver on the Asian Championships final yr.
At the Rome 2026 Diamond League, Sachin will face a powerful line-up that features former world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada, Germany’s Julian Weber, Rio 2016 Olympic champion Thomas Rohler and Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of Czechia.
The discipline may even characteristic Curtis Thompson of the USA, Poland’s Dawid Wegner and Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage, who at the moment leads the world rankings this season.
Sachin has already opened his 2026 marketing campaign on the home circuit, ending second on the Indian Athletics Series meet in New Delhi in April with a greatest throw of 81.95m.
The males’s javelin throw occasion can be scheduled to happen on the Rabat Diamond League in Morocco on May 31, although the entry listing for that meet is but to be launched.
Meanwhile, Indian middle-distance runner Parul Chaudhary, who holds the nationwide information in ladies’s 3000m, 5000m and 3000m steeplechase, is about to take part within the steeplechase occasion on the Shanghai Diamond League on May 16.
The upcoming race will mark Parul’s third look in a Diamond League meet. The reigning Asian Games 5000m champion had completed sixteenth in Eugene in 2024 and sixth in Doha final yr.
In Shanghai, she is going to compete in opposition to reigning world champion Faith Cherotich, former world champion Norah Jeruto and former Olympic champion Peruth Chemutai.
The Shanghai leg will now function the opening occasion of the 2026 Diamond League season after the Doha meet, initially scheduled for May 8, was pushed again to June 19.
Both Sachin and Parul will goal to make use of the Diamond League competitions and publicity in opposition to high worldwide athletes to organize for a demanding season forward, which incorporates the 2026 Asian Games. (ANI)