Doha Diamond League: Can Neeraj Chopra get better his javelin crown right here?

Indian presence elsewhere

Nationwide record-holders Gulveer Singh and Parul Chaudhary are additionally competing within the males’s 5000m and girls’s 3000m steeplechase occasions respectively, making this the nation most illustration ever in a DL occasion.

Singh, who has been on a nationwide record-breaking spree in 5000m and 10,000m, is making his Diamond League debut, whereas Chaudhary had earlier taken half within the Eugene DL in Could 2024, ending sixteenth.

Each Singh (PB: 12:59.77sec) and Chaudhary (PB: 9:15.31sec) will face powerful competitors from among the many finest on the earth and are unlikely to complete within the top-three.

Curiously, 5 of the Doha contributors — Peters, Yego, Dean, Chopra and Jena — have been additionally scheduled to face one another within the inaugural NC Basic in Bengaluru on 24 Could, however that occasion has has been postponed within the wake of the army confrontation between India and Pakistan.