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    Home / News / Sports News / Diamond League Finals, Neeraj Chopra scripts history: Decoding his achievements
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    Diamond League Finals, Neeraj Chopra scripts history: Decoding his achievements
    Neeraj shined in the Diamond League finals (Source: Twitter/@Neeraj_chopra1)

    Diamond League Finals, Neeraj Chopra scripts history: Decoding his achievements

    By V Shashank
    Edited by Rajdeep Saha
    Sep 09, 2022
    02:52 pm

    What's the story

    Ace javelin thrower, Neeraj Chopra, scripted history as he became the first Indian to win the coveted Diamond League Finals title in Zurich, Switzerland.

    The 24-year-old aced the Diamond League 2022 with a throw of 88.44m.

    Notably, Neeraj is now an Olympic gold winner, silver medallist at the World Athletics Championships, and Diamond League champion, all within a span of 13 months.

    Finals

    Neeraj shines at the Diamond League Finals

    Neeraj started with a foul but bounced back with a title-winning throw of 88.44m in the second attempt.

    Interestingly, it remains his fourth-best career effort, but it got the job done for the Khandra-born.

    Meanwhile, Neeraj covered 88.00m, 86.11m, 87.00m, and 83.60 in his next four attempts.

    2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch finished second (86.94m) followed by Germany's Julian Weber (83.73m).

    Twitter Post

    Job done for Chopra

    Golds,Silvers done, he gifts a 24-carat Diamond 💎 this time to the nation 🇮🇳🤩

    Ladies Gentlemen, salute the great #NeerajChopra for winning #DiamondLeague finals at #ZurichDL with 88.44m throw.

    FIRST INDIAN🇮🇳 AGAIN🫵🏻#indianathletics 🔝

    X-*88.44*💎-86.11-87.00-6T😀 pic.twitter.com/k96w2H3An3

    — Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) September 8, 2022

    Diamond League

    Neeraj's performance in the past editions of Diamond League finals

    Neeraj competed in his third Diamond League finals after concluding seventh in 2017 and fourth in 2018.

    He participated in only two legs in 2022, with a second-place finish in Stockholm followed by a win in Lausanne.

    Neeraj (15) finished at the fourth spot, behind Vadlejch (27 from four events), Weber (19 from three events), and World Champion Anderson Peters (16 from two events).

    Information

    Chopra has been awarded with the Diamond Trophy

    Chopra has managed six throws of 88m-plus this year to highlight his consistency. He has been awarded with the Diamond Trophy, besides being handed a wild card for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. However, he has already qualified for the event.

    Lausanne

    Lausanne Diamond League: Neeraj Chopra clinches gold medal

    Recently, Chopra won the gold medal at the Lausanne Diamond League. He clocked a monster 89.08m throw.

    Notably, none of the competitors came close. Czech Republic's Jakub Vadlejch finished second with a best attempt of 85.88m.

    USA's Curtis Thompson took third place on the podium.

    This was also the first time an Indian athlete clinched the top spot in a Diamond League meet.

    History

    Chopra scripted history at World Athletics Championships

    Back in July, Chopra clinched the silver medal at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon (men's javelin throw final).

    The 24-year-old finished second with a best throw of 88.13m.

    Meanwhile, Grenada's Anderson Peters won the gold medal (90.54m).

    Chopra became only the second Indian to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships after long jumper Anju Bobby George (bronze in 2003).

    Achievements

    A look at Chopra's notable achievements

    Chopra broke his national record at the Stockholm Diamond League (89.94m) earlier in July.

    In 2021, Chopra won gold at Meeting Cidade de Lisboa (83.18m) and the Folksam Grand Prix in Sweden (80.96m).

    Chopra then became the second Indian to clinch an individual Olympic gold (Tokyo Games) after former shooter Abhinav Bindra.

    The former had claimed Independent India's first medal in athletics.

    Performance

    Chopra has been in a red-hot form

    Chopra won the gold at Athletics Central North West League Meeting in 2020.

    In 2021, he won gold at the Meeting Cidade de Lisboa.

    He won gold at Folksam Grand Prix before a bronze at Kuortane Games and Olympic gold.

    In 2022, he claimed silver at Paavo Nurmi Games.

    He won silver at Diamond League and World Athletics Championships.

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