Neeraj Chopra is ready to headline a high javelin competitors in India in September 2025. The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is ready to bid for a number of world athletics occasions within the subsequent few years together with the 2029 World Championships and therefore the invitational event will kind a part of that bidding course of as India opens to the world as a marketplace for javelin and different athletics competitions.
“There will likely be a high javelin competitors in India through which the highest 10 javelin throwers on the earth will compete. This will likely be an invite event to be held later this 12 months,” the outgoing AFI chief Adille Sumariwalla confirmed on Tuesday, January 7 on the primary day of the Annual Common Assembly (AGM). Chopra is ready to be a part of the organising committee alongside JSW, AFI and a international agency.
“Neeraj Chopra will likely be there. He’s a part of the workforce that’s organising the occasion, together with JSW, a international agency and the AFI are collectively creating this competitors. That is being finished as there may be a lot curiosity in javelin with August 7 — when Chopra gained the Tokyo Olympics gold — being noticed as Nationwide Javelin Day.”
Sumariwalla additionally elaborated on India’s curiosity and planning to host the athletics tournaments within the subsequent few years. “Bids are open in the mean time for (2028) World Junior Championships, 2029 World Championships, World Relays (2027) and India goes to bid for all of them. We now have put in our expression of curiosity and so the method has began. “
“We would additionally do a World Half Marathon,” he mentioned. Earlier than the Javelin occasion, India will likely be host to the World Athletics Continental Tour bronze-level occasion in Bhubaneswar on August 10, which would be the first international athletics meet within the nation because the late Nineteen Eighties and early Nineties, after the worldwide allow meets.
The 2002 Asian Video games Shot Put Gold medallist Bahadur Singh Sagoo was elected as the following AFI chief unopposed simply earlier than the AGM.
(With PTI inputs)