Neeraj Chopra joins organising group as India set to host prime 10 javelin throwers later this yr

Newest in India’s ambition to host world-class athletics occasions is a world javelin competitors headlined by Olympic gold and silver medallist Neeraj Chopra which can almost certainly be held in September. The unique javelin throw occasion will embody the world’s finest 10 throwers, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) introduced on Tuesday.

“There will likely be a prime javelin competitors in India wherein the top-10 javelin throwers on the planet will compete. This will likely be an invite event to be held later this yr,” outgoing AFI president Adille Sumariwalla, whose 12-year tenure as AFI chief ended on Tuesday, stated on Day 1 of the AFI Annual Normal Assembly (AGM).

“Neeraj Chopra will likely be there. He’s a part of the group that’s organising the occasion, together with JSW, a international agency and the AFI are collectively creating this competitors. That is being executed as there may be a lot curiosity in javelin with August 7 – when Chopra received the Tokyo Olympics gold – being noticed as Nationwide Javelin Day.”

India goals to host a number of athletic occasions

The javelin throw occasion will likely be along with a slew of competitions India has expressed its curiosity in internet hosting, together with the marquee 2029 World Championships and the 2027 World Relays. The AFI has already submitted its expression of curiosity to host the 2028 World Junior Championships when the worldwide physique chief Sebastian Coe visited India final November.

India is internet hosting a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze-level occasion in Bhubaneswar on August 10. This would be the first world athletics meet to be hosted by India after the worldwide allow meets, held within the nation within the late Eighties and early Nineties.

India has additionally hosted World Half Marathon Championships in 2004 in New Delhi.

The Continental Tour is an annual sequence of track-and-field competitions held beneath the aegis of World Athletics and it types the second tier of worldwide one-day conferences after the distinguished Diamond League.

The bronze-level Tour meet is under the gold and silver ranges.

The slew of world athletics occasions India is both internet hosting or bidding is in step with the nation’s bid to host the 2026 Olympics.

Simply earlier than the beginning of the AFI AGM, 2002 Asian Video games shot put gold medallist Bahadur Singh Sagoo was elected unopposed as the brand new AFI chief.

With company inputs