Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, will compete in the sixth Diamond League event in Lausanne on June 30 after recuperating from a muscular strain. The world-number-one Indian is listed in the list of competitors for the javelin throw event in a prestigious athletics competition. Top Indian athletes Jeswin Aldrin and Sreeshankar have also put their names in the long jump competition, in addition to Chopra.
“In the javelin, the Indian Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra will be challenged by the Czech Jakub Vadlejch and German Julian Weber,” the official website of the competition stated recently.
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The gold medalist from revealed last month on Twitter that he had strained a muscle while training and had withdrawn from the FBK Games in the Netherlands (June 4) and the Paavo Nurmi meet in Finland (June 13) out of caution. The 25-year-old also skipped the just-completed National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar. On June 27, he is also set to compete in a competition at the Golden Spike Ostrava in the Czech Republic.
The 25-year-old completed a flawless season by winning the Doha Diamond League on May 5 with a throw of 88.67 metres. Along with the Diamond League Finals and the Asian Games, there are also the World Championships (August 19–27) in Budapest, Hungary, which are the main competition this year. Chopra made history by being the first Indian to take home an individual Olympic medal in athletics with his gold in Tokyo in 2021.
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