EXPLAINED: How the lads’s javelin throw qualification at Paris Olympics works as Neeraj Chopra will get able to defend his Tokyo gold medal | Paris Olympics 2024 Information

NEW DELHI: Neeraj Chopra will make his a lot anticipated look on the Paris Olympics on Tuesday when he begins the defence of his historic Tokyo Video games gold medal with the qualification spherical within the French Capital.
Additionally competing alongside Neeraj can be Kishore Jena, who certified for the Paris Video games together with his silver medal on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou final 12 months, the place Neeraj, who can also be the reigning world champion, received his second consecutive Asiad gold.
Beginning first within the qualification spherical on Tuesday on the Stade de France can 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 area of 32 athletes in complete.

(Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Jena on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou – Getty Pictures)
Here is how the qualification guidelines on the Paris Olympics work in males’s javelin-throw competitors:
– The qualification commonplace is ready at 84 metres, which implies any thrower attaining that distance qualifies instantly for the ultimate.
– In case not one of the throwers handle to realize the qualification commonplace of 84 metres, then the 12 finest performers in line with distance achieved advance to the ultimate.
– Nevertheless, the Paris Video games guidelines state that if greater than 12 throwers obtain the qualification commonplace of 84 metres, then all of them advance to the ultimate.
Listed here 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)