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After the Olympics, Neeraj Chopra is gearing up to win gold in the World Championships. India’s 20-member contingent has solid medal hopes in the javelin throw. Qualifying is on 21st. Final on 23rd. Only Anju Bobby George has won a medal in the world meet. In 2003, he won bronze in the long jump at the Paris meet. Neeraj Chopra, who was on rest after the Olympics, won medals in all the three meets he played in a span of 17 days last month. The national record was broken twice. The savings are one gold and two silver. He found a new national distance by throwing 89.94 meters in the Diamond League held in Stockholm, Sweden. Achievement Silver medal. Six cm less than the dream distance of 90 meters.

Competing after the Olympics, Pavonurmi won silver at the Games with 89.30m, but was a national record. followed by gold (86.90) in the Curtain Games. He won gold by throwing 87.58 meters in Tokyo Olympics. All the leading stars are at the world meet. Grenada’s Anderson Peters (93.07m), Czech Olympic silver medalist Jakub Vadilj (90.88), Finland’s Oliver Hilander (89.83), Germany’s Julian Webber (84.91) and Trinidad’s Keshaun Walacott (88.70) are the challengers. 2017 World Champion Johannes Vetter of Germany withdrew due to injury.

Six whippers

There are six bowlers in India’s 20-member squad. Four of them are Malayalis. M Sreesankar, Y Mohammad Anees and Jeswin Aldrin in Men’s Long Jump. Triple jump includes Abdullah Abubakar, Praveen Chitravel and Eldos Paul.

Out of the 32 participants in the long jump, 20 could not clear eight meters in the final meet. After a poor performance in the Olympics, Sreesankar is all set to make a comeback this season. His own national record is 8.36 meters. Trying to repeat this performance. Sreesankar said that the goal is a good jump in the world championships. The long jump qualification is at 6:30 tomorrow morning. Final Sunday at 6.55 am.

Avinash Sable will contest the men’s 3000m steeplechase. Rajinderpal Singh Tour will compete in shot put. Rohit Yadav is there to throw the javelin along with Neeraj. Sandeep Kumar is on a 20 km walk. There are five members in the 4x400m relay team. Apart from Malayalis Noah Nirmal Tom, Muhammad Ajmal and Muhammad Anas, the cast includes Naganathan Pandey and Rajesh Ramesh. Parul Chaudhary will take to the track in the women’s 3000m steeplechase. The queen is there to throw the javelin. Priyanka Goswami will join the walk.

Eight Malayalees

Eight Malayalees in the Indian team for the World Athletics Championship. There are no women. M Sreesankar and Y Mohammad Anees in long jump. Eldos Paul and Abdullah Abubakar will compete in triple jump. MP Jabir will take to the track in the 400m hurdles.

The relay team consists of Noah Nirmal Tom, Y Muhammad Anas and Muhammad Ajmal. Chief coach P Radhakrishnan Nair, associate coach MK Rajmohan and Sreesankar’s father and coach S Murali are in the Indian team.