NEW DELHI: The 2023 Blonde Spike Ostrava athletics meet will see the participation from Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra which shall be held within the Czech Republic on June 27.
The 25-year-old Neeraj Chopra, who hasn’t competed since endmost yr’s Diamond League finals because of an shock, will start his 2023 season on the Doha Diamond League Meet on Might 5.
Neeraj is the reigning Diamond League champion. He gained the coveted name in September endmost yr on the Diamond League finals in Zurich, turning into the primary Indian athlete to win the trophy.
At an tournament in Ostrava, the javelin will once more be within the highlight. Bharat’s Olympic champion Chopra, who claimed a historical global silver in Oregon will once more face the 2 athletes who had joined him at the podium there — Grenada’s two-time global gold medallist Anderson Peters and Czech Republic’s bronze medallist Jakub Vadlejch.
But even so, 3000m steeplechase runner Lamecha Girma and 100m hurdler Tobi Amusan will attach their fellow global record-holder Paul Vaulter Mondo Duplantis on the Ostrava Blonde Spike.
Within the ladies’s division, the Eastern athlete Haruka Kitaguchi (66.00), the bronze medallist on the International Championships and winner of the DL conferences in Paris and Silesia shall be up towards the International and Eu championships finalist Czech Republic’s Nikola Ogrodnikova.
(With IANS Inputs)
The 25-year-old Neeraj Chopra, who hasn’t competed since endmost yr’s Diamond League finals because of an shock, will start his 2023 season on the Doha Diamond League Meet on Might 5.
Neeraj is the reigning Diamond League champion. He gained the coveted name in September endmost yr on the Diamond League finals in Zurich, turning into the primary Indian athlete to win the trophy.
At an tournament in Ostrava, the javelin will once more be within the highlight. Bharat’s Olympic champion Chopra, who claimed a historical global silver in Oregon will once more face the 2 athletes who had joined him at the podium there — Grenada’s two-time global gold medallist Anderson Peters and Czech Republic’s bronze medallist Jakub Vadlejch.
But even so, 3000m steeplechase runner Lamecha Girma and 100m hurdler Tobi Amusan will attach their fellow global record-holder Paul Vaulter Mondo Duplantis on the Ostrava Blonde Spike.
Within the ladies’s division, the Eastern athlete Haruka Kitaguchi (66.00), the bronze medallist on the International Championships and winner of the DL conferences in Paris and Silesia shall be up towards the International and Eu championships finalist Czech Republic’s Nikola Ogrodnikova.
(With IANS Inputs)
