Two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra will compete at the Lausanne Diamond League on August 21 in a star-studded men's javelin field featuring Commonwealth Games champion Rumesh Pathirage, Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem and several world champions. Returning from injury, Chopra enters the meet after a season-best 85.83m silver-winning throw at the Commonwealth Games.
New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra will compete in the Lausanne Diamond League on August 21 against a star-studded men's javelin field featuring recently-crowned Commonwealth Games champion and world leader Rumesh Pathirage of Sri Lanka among others.
The event will, in fact, have five participants from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow that ended on Sunday.
Chopra, who won silver in Glasgow with a season-best throw of 85.83m in his second meet after an injury layoff, will face Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan, reigning world champion Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago, former world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada and former Olympic champion Thomas Rohler of Germany apart from Pathirage.
The field will also include Tokyo Olympic silver-medallist Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic, Germany's Julian Weber, Switzerland's Simon Wieland and American Curtis Thompson, the world No. 2 this season.
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