Lausanne Diamond League 2023: Neeraj Chopra, Jeswin Aldrin and Murali Sreesankar in entry list

Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra as well as long jumpers Jeswin Aldrin and Murali Sreesankar are the Indian athletes that figure in entry list for the Diamond League in Lausanne on June 30.

Reigning Wanda Diamond League champion Chopra, who was recovering from a muscle strain, is in the list released by the organisers of the prestigious athletics meet.

"In the javelin, the Indian Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra will be challenged by the Czech Jakub Vadlejch and German Julian Weber," the official website of the competition stated recently.

The 25-year-old had won the Doha Diamond League on May 5 with a throw of 88.67m, capping off a perfect start to the season, but has missed action since then.

Last month, Chopra had announced on Twitter that he had sustained a muscle strain during training and pulled out of the FBK Games in the Netherlands (June 4) and the Paavo Nurmi meet in Finland (June 13) as a precautionary measure.

The 25-year-old also missed the recently-concluded National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar. He is scheduled to compete in the tournament at the Golden Spike Ostrava in the Czech Republic on June 27, but his participation in the event is not yet confirmed.

The Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Chopra could also compete in the World Championships (August 19-27) in Budapest, Hungary, which is the major event this year, along with the Diamond League Finals and the Asian Games.

Apart from Chopra, the names of top Indian athletes Aldrin and Sreeshankar have been entered in the list for long jump in Lausanne. Sreesankar won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham and finished third in Paris Diamond League.

But the Indian duo will be in a competitive field with reigning Wanda Diamond League champion and Olympics champion Miltiadis Tentoglou, who won in Paris, headling the event alongside Switzerland's Simon Ehammer, who won last week in Oslo.