After Kourtane success, Neeraj Chopra eyes elusive podium end on the Stockholm Diamond League

After a profitable outing on the Kourtane Games in Finland, India’s Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra is being primed for a podium end on the prestigious Diamond League competitors in Stockholm on Thursday, 30 June.

Chopra gained the Kourtane video games beneath treacherous circumstances, slipping on his profitable throw awkwardly beneath heavy rainfall. However, he bought up rapidly to reassure everybody watching and ended up clinching the gold medal with the identical throw.

This could be Chopra’s first look within the Diamond League since 2018, the place he’s but to win a medal. The 24-year-old has competed within the occasion seven instances, managing his greatest at fourth place again in 2018.

“We started training in December, so it was a bit late. I needed to get fit again as my weight had also increased after the Tokyo Games,” Chopra stated throughout a pre-event press convention.

“I had gained 13kg-14kg, so the plan was to get fit again and hence we started the season a bit late.

“Our major goal this 12 months are the World Championship and Commonwealth Games because the Asian Games has been postponed,” he added.

The prestigious one-day meet on the Swedish capital can be Chopra’s greatest occasion forward of the World Championships in Eugene, USA, subsequent month. He will even be dealing with the hardest area of the season to this point with all of the three Tokyo Olympics medallists in fray.

Chopra’s closest competitors in the intervening time, Germany’s Johannes Vetter, who has shaken up the athletics world with the utmost variety of 90-plus throws among the many energetic throwers, is on the sidelines and wouldn’t take an element within the occasion.

After profitable gold at Kuortane, the place he had been coaching, Chopra has shifted to Uppsala, lower than 100km from Stockholm, reported information company PTI. It additional acknowledged that Chopra wouldn’t be collaborating in any occasion after the Diamond League and earlier than the July 15-24 World Championships.

WHEN AND WHERE TO WATCH?

Neeraj Chopra’s occasion could be watched reside on Sports18 channel on TV or could be reside streamed at Voot App, 11:30 PM onwards.