Neeraj Chopra at Lausanne Diamond League Highlights: Neeraj Chopra finishes 2nd with season-best 89.49m

Neeraj Chopra comes so close to breaching the elusive 90-metre mark!

He finishes second with a throw of 89.49m in his final attempt – four centimetres further than the throw that won him silver in the Paris Olympics earlier this month!

Grenada’s Anderson Peters wins the Lausanne event with a Meet Record of 90.61m in his sixth and final attempt! He started celebrating right after even though it was the first of three throws in the sixth round of attempts.

Germany’s Julian Weber finishes third with a best effort of 87.08m, throwing a relatively sedate 82.33m in his final attempt. His progression appears to be the complete opposite of Chopra’s, peaking early in the event.

Here are the final standings:

Neeraj Chopra is set to compete alongside Grenada’s Anderson Peters and Germany’s Julian Weber in the sixth and final attempt after regaining his form with an 85.58m throw in his penultimate attempt!

Can he pip Peters to the top in his final attempt?

This is turning out to be quite the spectacular effort from Grenada’s Anderson Peters, who breaches 86m for the fourth consecutive time with a throw of 86.59m in his fourth attempt.

Both second and third-placed Julian Weber and Artur Felfner produce a no-throw each while Neeraj Chopra remains fourth with an effort of 82.34m in his fourth.

Meanwhile, Finland’s Lassi Etelatalo and Lithuania’s Edis Matusevicius have been eliminated after finishing ninth and 10th at the halfway stage.

Grenada’s Anderson Peters and Germany’s Julian Weber continue to occupy the top two spots at the halfway mark of the event with best efforts of 88.49m and 87.08m respectively. Weber, however, drops to 81.87m in his third attempt while Peters crosses the 87-metre mark once again.

Chopra remains fourth at the halfway stage with a throw of 83.13m in his third attempt. He’s among only a handful to have thrown in excess of 90 metres in all three attempts so far.

Neeraj Chopra moves back to the top three with a slightly better throw of 83.21m — just two centimetres better than Roderick Dean’s season-best effort. Ukraine’s Artur Flefner, however, moves past him with a throw that measures 83.38m.

Grenada’s Anderson Peters and Germany’s Julian Weber, meanwhile, appear to be in a league of their own at the moment.

Chopra is the first to go among the participants in the men’s javelin event, and he begins with an effort of 82.10m. Paris Olympics bronze medallist Anderson Peters, meanwhile, jumps to the top with a throw of 86.36m followed by Germany’s Julian Weber, who starts off with a best throw of 85.01m.

Japan’s Roderick Genki Dean takes the third spot with a best effort of 83.19m.

The men’s javelin event at the Lausanne Diamond League is underway, and it’s the reigning world champion Neeraj Chopra who goes first!

He starts off with a throw measuring 82.10 metres!

Neeraj Chopra (India)

Roderick Genki Dean (Japan)

Lassi Etelatalo (Finland)

Artur Felfner (Ukraine)

Andrian Mardare (Moldova)

Edis Matusevicius (Lithuania)

Anderson Peters (Grenada)

Jakub Vadlejch (Czech Republic)

Julian Weber (Germany)

Julius Yego (Kenya)

ICYMI  –– India actually felt a tinge of disappointment at Neeraj Chopra missing out on gold at the Paris Olympics. That’s how much of a superstar the Haryanvi is.

Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem dethroned Chopra from the Olympic throne with an Olympic record throw of 92.97m, with Chopra collecting silver with a season-best effort of 89.45 — nearly two metres more than his gold-winning effort in Tokyo.

Grenada’s Anderson Peters took home bronze with a best effort of 88.54m.

Chopra had produced his season-best effort in the Paris Olympics, touching a distance of 89.45m in his only legal attempt to win silver at the Paris Olympics. It was nearly two metres more than the 87.58m that he had thrown in Tokyo 2020 to win a historic gold, but thanks to Arshad Nadeem’s monster throw, wasn’t good enough for a second consecutive top-of-the-podium finish.

Can he go past his best effort in Paris earlier this month and establish a new season-best in Lausanne? And perhaps, in the process, finally breach 90 metres?