India’s two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra will kick off his 2025 season on the Doha Diamond League. The 90 m mark will likely be within the highlight as soon as once more as Chopra fights it out with Kishore Jena additionally combating it out within the self-discipline towards the likes of Anderson Peters and Jakub Vadlejch.
India’s ace athlete and two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra will likely be in motion within the Doha Diamond League as he begins his 2025 season towards acquainted faces, together with his compatriot Kishore Jena. Chopra, who will likely be defending his World Championship title later this yr, will likely be up towards the likes of Anderson Peters of Grenada, two-time world champion and 2024 Olympics bronze-winner, Jakub Vadlejch of Czechia, Julian Weber and Max Dehning of Germany, Julius Yego from Trinidad and Roderick Genki Dean of Japan.
Curiously, all 5 of Peters, Yego, Dean, Jena and Chopra would have been locking horns towards each other every week later within the inaugural NC Traditional, which now stands postponed as a result of India-Pakistan tensions, which escalated final week. Jena, who received the Silver Medal within the Asian Video games a few years in the past for India with Chopra clinching the Gold, hasn’t been at his better of late and can be eager to enhance upon his latest numbers.
With Chopra taking the sector within the first leg of the Diamond League, the main target will likely be on the 90m mark as soon as once more, this time particularly, on condition that the world-record holder and multiple-Olympic medal winner Jan Zelezny is now in control of the Indian athlete as his new coach. Ought to be an interesting contest. Other than javelin throw, sprinters Gulveer Singh and Parul Choudhary may even be representing India on the Doha leg.
When and the place to observe Neeraj Chopra reside on TV and streaming in India within the Doha Diamond League?
The boys’s javelin throw occasion within the Doha Diamond League will kick off at 10:13 PM IST on Friday, Could 16. The Diamond League first leg, that includes Neeraj Chopra and Indian athletes in a few different disciplines, sadly, is not going to have a telecast on TV. Nevertheless, the occasion could be live-streamed on the Diamond League YouTube Channel and Fb web page.
Since athletics occasions have a world feed, it’ll hold switching between completely different disciplines; in any other case, reside scoring could be adopted on the Diamond League web site.
Indian athletes in motion
Javelin Throw – Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena – 10:13 PM IST
Males’s 5000m – Gulveer Singh – 10:15 PM IST
Ladies’s 3000m Steeplechase – Parul Choudhary – 11:14 PM IST