Neeraj Chopra to compete at Janusz Kusocinski Memorial in Poland on May 23
Neeraj Chopra will compete at the 71st Janusz Kusocinski Memorial, a World Athletics Continental Tour (Silver Level) meet, in Chorzow, Poland, on May 23.
Polish Athletics Association on Tuesday announced that two-time Olympic medallist and reigning World champion Neeraj, Paris Olympics bronze medallist and two-time World champion Anderson Peters of Grenada, former European champion Julian Weber of Germany will participate in the men’s javelin throw event alongside local athletes Cyprian Mrzygłód, Dawid Wegner and Marcin Krukowski.
Neeraj and Peters were initially supposed to compete at the Neeraj Chopra Classic, a World Athletics Gold Label meet which was set to be held at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on May 24 before the organisers decided to postpone the event due to the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan post the Pahalgam terror attack.
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The 27-year-old Neeraj opened his season with a gold medal-winning 84.52m throw at the Potchefstroom Invitational in South Africa on April 16. His next event will be the Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday where he will be joined by Asian Games silver medallist Kishore Jena, Peters, Weber, Czechia’s Jakub Vadlejch, Max Dehning of Germany, Julius Yego of Kenya and Roderick Genki Dean of Japan.
Neeraj will also compete at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic city on June 24.