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Paris Olympics: World Athletics Releases Entry Lists, Neeraj Among 36 Tokyo Winners In Fray
Paris Olympic Games: India's javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is among 36 of the Tokyo Olympic champions in individual events who will defend their titles in the track and field competitions at the Olympic Games in Paris, starting on July 26. Those set to participate in the athletics competitions at the Stade de France and on the roads of Paris include all bar one of the individual defending champions in the men’s events and 15 in the women’s events.
These champions from Tokyo figured in the entry lists for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games that the World Athletics published on Friday and featured the names of athletes who intend to compete in the French capital when athletics takes place between August 1 to 11.
Athletes from some 200 teams will compete across the programme of 48 events, which includes 23 women’s disciplines and 23 men’s disciplines as well as two mixed events – the 4x400m mixed relay and the marathon race walk mixed relay, the World Athletics informed in a release on Friday.
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