Neeraj Chopra on Thursday, September 8 became the first Indian to win the Dimond trophy, a prestigious title in the Diamond League final in Javelin Men. The 24 -year -old player, Olympic champion from Tokyo, threw 88.44M to finish in the podium steps. Neeraj finished in front of Jakub Vadlejch from the Czech Republic and Julian Webber from Germany for the history of scripts. The Javelin Indian star began with a temporary violation Vadlejch led in the first attempt with a throw of 84.15m. However, Neeraj threw 88.44 million in the second and that was no better until the end of the competition.
Neeraj then threw 88.00m in his 3rd, 86.11 million efforts in the 4th and 87.00m efforts in the 5th and 83.60m in his final attempt. Vadlejch finished in the 2nd place with the best effort 86.94M. 3 Neeraj throwing is better than the rest of the field in other dominant performances from India, this time in the Diamond League final.
NEERAJ COMPLETES THE SET
Neeraj won the Olympic gold in 2021, the Asian Games Gold in 2018, the Commonwealth Games Gold in 2018, the Silver World Athletics Championship in 2022. However, he said that he wanted to win the diamond trophy to complete the set and set about the importance of league events Diamond for him. Neeraj walked in Zurich on Thursday, topping the 6-person field, which also included the Silver Medal of the Tokyo Jakub Vadlecjh Olympics.
Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian to win the prestigious diamond trophy, the title in the Diamond League final in Zurich after reaching the first series of earlier this year. The Tokyo Olympic champion became the first Indian to finish the first at Diamond League when he was finished with 89.08 million in Lausanne Diamond League in August. He had previously competed in two Diamond League finals, finishing its 7th in 2017 and finishing its 4th in 2018.
The Historic Throw in Lausanne Was Also Neeraj’s Return to Competitive Action After Having Missed the Commonwealth Games due to an injury that he picked up the world athletics championship in eugene as well. Before Eugene, Neeraj had reached the best at the foot of Stockholm from Diamond League with a throw of 89.94 million. He finished 2 of the best behind the world champion in power Anderson Peters, who missed the Diamond League final in Zurich because of injury fears after he suffered an attack on a ship in Grenada.
Neeraj only competed in 2 pals of the Diamond League in 2022 and the victory in Lausssane and the second place in Stockholm was enough for him to order a place in the final in Zurich. Neeraj has finished 4th behind Jakub Vadlech (27 out of 4 events), Julian Weber (19 of 3 events), and Anderson Peters (16 out of 2 events). Neeraj finished with 15 out of 2 events. Each athlete is awarded 8 points for the first finish at Diamond League’s foot, 7 for finishing to 2nd, 6 for finishing 3rd and 5 to finish the 4th.