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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Neeraj, who was placed in Group A at Hayward Field, recorded an 88.39m throw in his first attempt to break the qualifying mark and did not take his second or third attempts on Thursday.
Annu Rani, who had also reached the final Doha edition in 2019 and eventually finished eighth, qualified for the final with a throw of 59.60 metres.
Chopra became the first and only Indian track and field athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics. Chopra has continued to push himself since then. He recently broke his national record at the Diamond League in Stockholm.
What this 24 year old Indian Army Subedar has done in his short but staggering career till now is just mesmerising. Before him, only Norman Pritchard had won two silvers in athletics for India at the 1900 Olympics.
Jhajharia, who won gold medals in 2004 Athens and 2016 Rio with world record throws, threw 64.35 much farther than his world record of 63.97 but Sri Lanka's Dinesh Priyan Mudiyanselage Herath produced a gigantic throw of 67.79 to set a new world record and win the gold medal. Sundar Singh Gurjar, a two-time World Championship gold medallist, took bronze with a best throw of 64.01 meters on Monday.
