{"id":47967,"date":"2024-05-10T18:25:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T18:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/doha-diamond-league-star-javelin-thrower-neeraj-chopra-finishes-second-with-best-attempt-of-88-36m-more-sports-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T18:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T18:25:47","slug":"doha-diamond-league-star-javelin-thrower-neeraj-chopra-finishes-second-with-best-attempt-of-88-36m-more-sports-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/doha-diamond-league-star-javelin-thrower-neeraj-chopra-finishes-second-with-best-attempt-of-88-36m-more-sports-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Doha Diamond League: Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra finishes second with best attempt of 88.36m | More sports News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-110018640,imgsize-53132.cms?fit=1280,720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Doha Diamond League: Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra finishes second with best attempt of 88.36m | More sports News &#8211; Times of India\" title=\"Doha Diamond League: Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra finishes second with best attempt of 88.36m | More sports News &#8211; Times of India\" \/><\/div>\n<div>NEW DELHI: Star India <!-- -->javelin<!-- --> thrower <!-- -->Neeraj Chopra<!-- --> on Friday finished second in <!-- -->Doha Diamond League<!-- -->, finishing with the best attempt of 88.36m.<br \/>The Olympic and world champion missed the top spot by a whisker, falling just 2 centimeters short of Jakub Vadlejch&#8217;s winning effort of 88.38m. <br \/>The 26-year-old Chopra trailed Czech Republic veteran Vadlejch &#8212; who won the title with his third round throw of 88.38m &#8212; all through the competition.<br \/>Chopra made a last ditch effort but his final round throw fell 2cm short of Vadlejch&#8217;s mark as the Indian superstar failed to defend the title he had won won last year .<br \/>Two-time world champion Anderson Peters took the third sport with a best throw of 86.62m.<br \/>Kishore Jena&#8217;s Diamond League debut ended in disappointment as he was eliminated after three rounds of throws, with 76.31m being his best. He began with a 75.72m, then fouled his second effort, before coming up with 76.31m to be at ninth after three throws each by all the 10 competitors.<br \/>The 28-year-old Jena has a personal best of 87.54m, a performance that fetched him a silver medal in the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, but it was not his day on Friday.<br \/>Vadlejch had won a silver in the Tokyo Olympics and a bronze in the 2023 World Championships, the two events in which Chopra had won gold.<br \/>Chopra had won the 2023 Doha Diamond League with a throw of 88.67m, ahead of Vadlejch (88.63) and Peters (85.88m).<br \/>The next Diamond League meeting which has men&#8217;s javelin as a discipline will be in Paris on July 7.<br \/>At each DL meeting, athletes are awarded 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 points for ranking first to to eighth respectively. The top six javelin throwers will compete in the Diamond League Finals in Brussels on September 13-14 and the winner will lift the DL champion&#8217;s trophy.<br \/><span class=\"em \">(With inputs from PTI)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isFBCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() {\n          n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n        };\n        if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n        n.push = n;\n        n.loaded = !0;\n        n.version = '2.0';\n        n.queue = [];\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js', n, t, s);\n      fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    };\n    function loadGtagEvents(isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      var id = document.getElementById('toi-plus-google-campaign');\n      if (id) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        t.id = 'toi-plus-google-campaign';\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074', n, t, s);\n    };\n    function loadSurvicateJs(allowedSurvicateSections = []){\n      const section =  window.location.pathname.split('\/')[1]\n      const isHomePageAllowed = window.location.pathname === '\/' && allowedSurvicateSections.includes('homepage')\n      if(allowedSurvicateSections.includes(section) || isHomePageAllowed){\n        (function(w) {\n          var s = document.createElement('script');\n          s.src=\"https:\/\/survey.survicate.com\/workspaces\/0be6ae9845d14a7c8ff08a7a00bd9b21\/web_surveys.js\";\n          s.async = true;\n          var e = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];\n          e.parentNode.insertBefore(s, e);\n        })(window);\n      }\n    }\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    var TimesApps = window.TimesApps;\n    TimesApps.toiPlusEvents = function(config) {\n      var isConfigAvailable = \"toiplus_site_settings\" in f && \"isFBCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings && \"isGoogleCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings;\n      var isPrimeUser = window.isPrime;\n      if (isConfigAvailable && !isPrimeUser) {\n        loadGtagEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n        loadFBEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isFBCampaignActive);\n        loadSurvicateJs(f.toiplus_site_settings.allowedSurvicateSections);\n      } else {\n        var JarvisUrl=\"https:\/\/vsp1jarvispvt.indiatimes.com\/v1\/feeds\/toi_plus\/site_settings\/643526e21443833f0c454615?db_env=published\";\n        window.getFromClient(JarvisUrl, function(config){\n          if (config) {\n            loadGtagEvents(config?.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n            loadFBEvents(config?.isFBCampaignActive);\n            loadSurvicateJs(config?.allowedSurvicateSections);\n          }\n        })\n      }\n    };\n  })(\n    window,\n    document,\n    'script',\n  );<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/more-sports\/athletics\/doha-diamond-league-star-javelin-thrower-neeraj-chopra-finishes-second-with-best-attempt-of-88-36m\/articleshow\/110018269.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Star India javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Friday finished second in Doha Diamond League, finishing with the best attempt of 88.36m.The Olympic and world champion missed the top spot by a whisker, falling just 2 centimeters short of Jakub Vadlejch&#8217;s winning effort of 88.38m. 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