Neeraj Chopra and Avinash Sable might be spearheading the Indian problem within the Diamond League season finale beginning on September 13, 2024.
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Javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra can have lofty expectations to reside as much as, whereas for steeplechaser Avinash Sable, it might be a chance to make up for a disappointing Olympics, when the the star-studded Diamond League season finale begins in Brussels on Friday (September 13, 2024), that includes the very best of world athletics.
The showpiece is unfold over two days for the primary time and the sphere options prime athletes from all continents, together with an unprecedented variety of Olympic medal winners, who might be vying for the highest honours in 32 disciplines.
Pole vault world file holder Armand DuPlantis, American dash queen Sha’Carri Richardson, and celebrity hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone are among the many huge names who will mild up the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels.
Nationwide record-holding 3000m steeplechaser Sable, after ending eleventh within the Olympic Video games, might be in motion on Friday in his maiden look within the DL season finale.
Chopra, who added a silver to his Olympic medal tally in Paris following a historic gold within the Tokyo Video games, might be aiming to finish his season on a excessive on Saturday.
It’s for the primary time {that a} DL finale options two Indians.
Sable completed 14th within the total Diamond League standings with three factors from two conferences. However 4 athletes ranked increased than him — Lamecha Girma (injured) of Ethiopia, Geordie Beamish of New Zealand, Ryuji Mura of Japan and Hillary Bor of the USA — pulled out, permitting him to sneak inside the highest 12 cut-off.
5 conferences out of the 14 within the DL sequence the world over this season had males’s 3000m steeplechase occasion.
The 29-year-old Sable had completed sixth with a nationwide file time of 8:09.91 — bettering his personal earlier mark — within the Paris leg of the Diamond League on July 7. He was 14th on the Silesia leg with a time of 8:29.96 on August 25.
Chopra, alternatively, made the DL remaining minimize after ending fourth within the total standings with 14 factors from his two second-place finishes within the one-day meets held in Doha and Lausanne.
Every Diamond League season finale champion is awarded a ‘Diamond Trophy’, USD 30,000 prize cash and a wild card for the World Athletics Championships. The runner-up will get USD 12,000.
Chopra skipped the final sequence meet in Zurich final week.
The 26-year-old completed two factors behind Czechia’s Jakub Vadlech. Grenada’s Anderson Peters and German star Julian Weber took the highest two spots with 29 and 21 factors respectively.
Chopra has been struggling along with his health this season and is predicted to satisfy a health care provider to rectify a groin harm that has affected him all season and got here in the way in which of his quest to hit the 90m mark.
He had gained the Lausanne leg in 2022 and 2023 and completed second behind Vadlejch within the winner-takes-all finale in Eugene, USA, final yr.
Revealed – September 12, 2024 03:13 pm IST
