Athletics, Doha Diamond League 2024: Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena open season – All you need to know
Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Kumar Jena will open their 2024 season at the Doha Diamond League meet on Friday.
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With eyes set on defending his Olympic crown in Paris, India’s Neeraj Chopra will open his 2024 season at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday.
The 26-year-old reigning world champion will also have fellow Indian and the 2022 Asian Games silver medallist Kishore Jena for company in the event.
With Doha offering perfect conditions for javelin throwers in recent years, a lot is expected from the stacked field in the competition. In action alongside the two Indians will be former world champion Anderson Peters, Olympics and world championships medallist Jakub Vadlejch, Kenya’s Julius Yego, Finland’s Oliver Helander among others.
Chopra, who will be competing in his first tournament since the 2022 Asian Games in October last year, will hope for a good start to the season before he returns home to India for his first competition in the country since his exploits at the Tokyo Olympics.
Chopra had started his highly successful 2023 season with an emphatic victory at the Doha Diamond League meet last year ahead of Peters and Vadlejch. He will look to replicate something similar this time around.
While his main aim for the 2024 season would surely be to replicate his success from Tokyo in Paris, the 90m mark would surely be lingering somewhere...
