Athletics: Neeraj Chopra, Sreeshankar M in action at Lausanne Diamond League – all you need to know

After spending months on the sideline, Neeraj Chopra will be back in action at the Lausanne Diamond League meet, along with long jumper Sreeshankar Murali.

Chopra, the Tokyo Olympics gold medallist in the men’s javelin throw event, who won the season-opening meet in Doha, picked up a muscle strain and was forced to to miss FBK Games in the Netherlands on June 4, and the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland on June 13 due to an injury he sustained in training.

Sreeshankar, on the other hand, takes part in his second Diamond League meet of the season, fresh after jumping a personal best of 8.41m at the recent Inter State Athletics Championships and finishing third at the Paris Diamond League meet earlier this month.

Athletics: Neeraj Chopra, Sreeshankar Murali to return to action at Lausanne Diamond League

Who is Chopra competing against?

Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch from the Czech Republic is the in-form athlete in the eight-man javelin throw field having won six of the seven meets this season. The only event he came second in, incidentaly, was at the Doha Diamond League where he finished second, behind Chopra.

Since that night in Doha, Vadlejch won five meets on the trot while also throwing a world lead 89.51m throw...

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