Javelin thrower Subedar Neeraj Chopra, an Olympic champion, won the first leg of the Diamond League on Friday in Doha with a performance that set a world record and ranked fourth in his career. Chopra defeated the star-studded field with a distance of 88.67 metres, giving him the perfect start to his season and championship defence in the Diamond League. In September of last year, the 25-year-old Chopra took home the 2022 Diamond League Final trophy from Switzerland.
Doha Diamond League
Subedar Chopra made a world-beating throw of 88.67 metres on his very first attempt, which was also the fourth-highest throw of his career, to place himself at the top of the leaderboard. In his second outing at the Qatar Sports Club, he won the competition by maintaining the lead until the very finish in his maiden outing in Doha in 2018, he had placed fourth.
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Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic, who won the silver medal, came within four centimetres of Chopra’s best throw in the second round with a throw of 88.63 metres. Silver had also been won by Vadlejch at the Olympics in Tokyo. With a throw of 90.88 metres, he had previously earned silver in the Doha Diamond League. Anderson Peters, the current world champion, came in third with a modest best throw of 85.88m after winning the competition here last year with a huge throw of 93.07m.
Subedar Chopra, who has a personal best of 89.94 metres, was unable to maintain the pace of his first effort because he could only throw the spear 86.04 metres, then 85.47 metres, before fouling it in the fourth.
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