Additionally competing alongside Neeraj will likely be Kishore Jena, who certified for the Paris Video games together with his silver medal on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou final yr, the place Neeraj, who can be the reigning world champion, received his second consecutive Asiad gold.
Beginning first within the qualification spherical on Tuesday on the Stade de France will likely be Jena, who’s clubbed with 15 different throwers in Group A. Neeraj is slotted in Group B of one other 16 throwers, making it a subject of 32 athletes in complete.
(Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Jena on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou – Getty Photos)
This is how the qualification guidelines on the Paris Olympics work in males’s javelin-throw competitors:
– The qualification normal is ready at 84 metres, which implies any thrower attaining that distance qualifies straight for the ultimate.
– In case not one of the throwers handle to attain the qualification normal of 84 metres, then the 12 greatest performers in accordance with distance achieved advance to the ultimate.
– Nonetheless, the Paris Video games guidelines state that if greater than 12 throwers obtain the qualification normal of 84 metres, then all of them advance to the ultimate.
Listed below are how the 2 qualification-round teams stack up:
Group A (1:45 pm IST on August 6)
Julius Yego (Kenya), Oliver Helander (Finland), Leandro Ramos (Portugal), Keshorn Walcott (Trinidad and Tobago), Kishore Jena (India), Teura’itera’i Tupaia (France), Julian Weber (Germany), Roderick Genki Dean (Japan), Alexandru Mihaita Novac (Romania), Dawid Wegner (Poland), Toni Keranen (Finland), Ihab Abdelrahman (Egypt), Curtis Thompson (USA), Patriks Gailums (Latvia), Pedro Henrique Rodrigues (Brazil), Jakub Vadlejch (Czechia)
Group B (3:20 pm IST on August 6)
Neeraj Chopra (India), Gatis Cakss (Latvia), Max Dehning (Germany), Cameron McEntyre (Australia), Arshad Nadeem (Pakistan), Marcin Krukowski (Poland), Lassi Etelatalo (Finland), Nnamdi Chinecherem (Nigeria), Luiz Mauricio da Silva (Brazil), Moustafa Mahmoud (Egypt), Artur Felfner (Ukraine), Timothy Herman (Belgium), Anderson Peters (Grenada), Andrian Mardare (Moldova), Edis Matusevicius (Lithuania), Cyprian Mrzyglod (Poland)
