Overview
- The AIU/World Athletics published the first-quarter 2026 Registered Testing Pool on January 2, naming only Chopra and Yadav from India.
- Yadav enters the pool after a breakout 2025 season that included fourth place at the World Championships with a personal best of 86.27m.
- Chopra remains a regular in the program, continuing his long-standing inclusion despite an eighth-place finish at the 2025 Worlds.
- Athletes in the pool face no-advance-notice testing and must provide daily whereabouts with a designated 60-minute window.
- Several Indians listed last quarter—Kishore Jena, Avinash Sable, Murali Sreeshankar, Annu Rani, and Jeswin Aldrin—were omitted this time, while Kenya and the United States have 94 and 69 athletes respectively.