Sri Lanka’s javelin sensation Rumesh Tharanga is set to compete today at the Diamond League Doha Meeting (Mazzraty Doha Meeting), continuing his breakthrough season on the international circuit.
Tharanga, who produced a national record of 92.62m in Rome earlier this month to win the Diamond League meeting and move into the top tier of world javelin throwers, will be making his Doha debut at the Qatar Sports Club.
The 23-year-old, who also claimed victory at the Ostrava Golden Spike in the Czech Republic with 86.57m, enters a highly competitive field featuring some of the biggest names in the sport.
Among his opponents are Olympic and world champions Arshad Nadeem (Pakistan) and Keshorn Walcott (Trinidad and Tobago), alongside former world champion Anderson Peters (Grenada) and world bronze medallist Curtis Thompson (USA). The field also includes experienced contenders such as Julius Yego (Kenya), Jakub Vadlejch (Czech Republic), and Ahmed Sameh Mohamed Hussein (Egypt).
Tharanga, who became the first Sri Lankan male javelin thrower to reach a World Athletics Championships final with a seventh-place finish in 2025, has been in strong form this season. His Rome performance added more than two metres to the long-standing meeting record and is considered one of the standout throws of the year.
Speaking ahead of the competition, he said facing the world’s best athletes is a “dream come true” and expressed confidence in producing another strong performance under favourable conditions in Doha.
The Mazzraty Doha Meeting is the seventh stop of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League season.
The event is scheduled to begin at 11:14 PM Sri Lanka time tonight. (NewsWire)
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