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The Hindu
14-05-2025
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- The Hindu
Neeraj Chopra to compete at Janusz Kusocinski Memorial in Poland on May 23
Neeraj Chopra will compete at the 71st Janusz Kusocinski Memorial, a World Athletics Continental Tour (Silver Level) meet, in Chorzow, Poland, on May 23. Polish Athletics Association on Tuesday announced that two-time Olympic medallist and reigning World champion Neeraj, Paris Olympics bronze medallist and two-time World champion Anderson Peters of Grenada, former European champion Julian Weber of Germany will participate in the men's javelin throw event alongside local athletes Cyprian Mrzygłód, Dawid Wegner and Marcin Krukowski. ❄️ Zimni ogrodnicy ❓ NIE ❌ 💥 𝗡𝗮𝗷𝗹𝗲𝗽𝘀𝗶 𝗼𝘀𝘇𝗰𝘇𝗲𝗽𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘆 ❗️ 𝗧𝗔𝗞 ✅ 🇮🇳 Neeraj Chopra 🇩🇪 Julian Weber 🇬🇩 Anderson Peters 🆚 Marcin Krukowski 🇵🇱 już 𝟮𝟯 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗮 na @StadionSlaski 🔝 👉 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘆 👉 🖱@ — ORLEN Memoriał Janusza Kusocińskiego (@MemorialKusego) May 14, 2025 Neeraj and Peters were initially supposed to compete at the Neeraj Chopra Classic, a World Athletics Gold Label meet which was set to be held at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on May 24 before the organisers decided to postpone the event due to the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan post the Pahalgam terror attack. READ | Neeraj Chopra to compete at Ostrava Golden Spike The 27-year-old Neeraj opened his season with a gold medal-winning 84.52m throw at the Potchefstroom Invitational in South Africa on April 16. His next event will be the Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday where he will be joined by Asian Games silver medallist Kishore Jena, Peters, Weber, Czechia's Jakub Vadlejch, Max Dehning of Germany, Julius Yego of Kenya and Roderick Genki Dean of Japan. Neeraj will also compete at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic city on June 24. Related Topics Neeraj Chopra
Reuters
14-04-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Genie out of the bottle for Gout after breakthrough nationals
MELBOURNE, April 14 (Reuters) - Stubborn tailwinds may have denied Gout Gout official times at Australia's athletics championships but they did nothing to blow away the hype surrounding the 17-year-old sprinter after his watershed meet. The Queensland schoolboy claimed his first national title in the 200 metres in a wind-assisted 19.84 seconds in Perth on Sunday, days after clocking 9.99 in the 100 of the under-20 event with another illegal wind. The 200 win was an emphatic response two weeks after being upstaged by compatriot Lachlan Kennedy in front of a capacity crowd at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne. While the setback may have knocked the confidence of other callow runners, Gout's coach Di Sheppard said it had only made him angry. There would be no 200 rematch with Kennedy, who was disqualified for a false start on Sunday, but Gout channelled his rage superbly to blitz the rest of the field. "It's definitely frustrating," Gout said of the wind. "I run fast times, but the wind is not on my side. "These are the steps we take to the top, you know? And these are the steps I have to take to potentially become world champion, Olympic champion." A parade of athletes and officials have warned Australia not to expect too much too soon of Gout, the son of South Sudan immigrants whose runs have earned comparisons with Usain Bolt. The warnings have gone largely unheeded. "What is also now a matter not open for debate is that Gout is the real thing. We are witnesses to greatness emerging in front of us by the race," said a testimonial published in The Age, a Melbourne newspaper. Gout can no longer go out in public without being swamped by fans and will return to his high school in Ipswich, outside of Brisbane, to another round of cheers from classmates. "The cork's out of the genie bottle now," Sheppard said. Australia will have another look at Gout at the Stawell Gift, a rural meet in southern Victoria state in the coming Easter weekend. The world will have to wait until his winter school holidays when he makes his international debut in Europe. Gout is scheduled to race twice in Europe, including the Ostrava Golden Spike on June 24 in the Czech Republic -- stepping stones on the way to a World Championships debut in Tokyo in September. While Gout hogged the limelight in Perth, governing body Australian Athletics was buoyed by a string of national records falling during the meet. Peter Bol, who finished fourth in the 800 at the Tokyo Olympics, took the national mark in 1:43.79, a return to form after his career was disrupted by a doping saga in 2023 before being cleared of wrongdoing. Patrick Johnson's long-standing Australian record of 9.93 in the men's 100 remains intact but he may soon be joined by a compatriot in the sub-10 second club. Kennedy ran 10 seconds flat in a heat before he was edged in the final by Rohan Browning, who matched his personal best of 10.01. "I wanted to come out and remind these guys who their dad is," 27-year-old Browning said. "There's a lot of short memories in this sport."
