Neeraj Chopra misses top spot by 1cm, finishes 2nd in Diamond League Final
Ace Indian javelin throw athlete Neeraj Chopra finished in second position in Brussels with a best throw of 87.86m at the Diamond League Final, on Sunday.
Ace Indian javelin throw athlete Neeraj Chopra finished in second position in Brussels with a best throw of 87.86m at the Diamond League Final, on Sunday.
Defending Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra said, he has saved his best for the final after topping the men's javelin throw qualification with a throw of 89.34m in the Paris Olympics here at the Stade de France on Tuesday.
The athletics competition at the magnificent 80000-capacity Stade de France has already seen some fabulous finals, most notably last evening’s pulsating men’s 100metre final won by star American sprinter Noah Nyles by a heart-stopping five thousandths of a second.
This will be Chopra’s first domestic competition since the 2021 Federation Cup in Patiala, where he came up with a best effort of 87.80m.
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Annu’s best throw of 57.74m came in her third attempt. It was considerably short of her personal best of 63.82m, which is also a national record.
Neeraj Chopra, once again , scripted a new chapter as with a Javelin throw of 88.17m,he became the first Indian…
This will be Chopra's first event since the world championship silver and after missing the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham due to injury.
Chopra, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medallist, had recently ended India's 19-year-long wait for a medal at the World Athletics Championships by winning silver with his best throw of 88.13 metres.
After his historic Olympic Gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, Neeraj got back to training after some months during which the athlete was felicitated by his country for winning the nation’s first ever Olympic gold in Athletics.
