Meeting Madrid 2021: Event list, streaming details, Neeraj Chopra in action

The 38th European Silver Meeting Madrid 2021, also known as Meeting Madrid, will not be short on firepower. A slew of world record holders and gold medallists, including India’s Neeraj Chopra, will get down to serious business when they compete in Meeting Madrid on June 19.

Meeting Madrid, classified as a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, would be a perfect practice ground for all Tokyo-bound athletes, who are eager to inch closer to world records and better their timings.

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The Meeting Madrid field includes defending 400m Olympic gold medallist Wayde van Niekerk, triple-jump champion Yulimar Rojas along with European silver and bronze medallists Holly Archer (of Great Britain) and Germany’s Hanna Klein.

The Meeting Madrid will also gauge India’s Neeraj Chopra’s fitness and performance. Having returned to the international scene after a layoff for more than a year, Neeraj Chopra will be up against defending world champion Anderson Peters along with Germany’s Julian Weber and Spain’s national record-holder Odei Jainaga.

Neeraj Chopra has already thrown the spear a whopping 88.07m in his only competition this year. Although Anderson Peters is the reigning world champion, he has not breached the 88m mark yet and will be gunning to prove his credentials as the world’s best in Madrid. Giving the duo tough competition will be Julian Weber, who has a best of 84.51m and Odei Jainaga, who is just shy of the 85m mark (84.80m).