File picture of Neeraj Chopra.
| Photograph Credit score: Ritu Raj Konwar
India’s two-time Olympic medal-winning javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra has certified for this month’s season finale of the distinguished Diamond League after ending fourth within the general standings on the finish of its 14 collection conferences the world over.
The season finale will probably be a two-day affair on September 14 and 15 in Brussels. Chopra accrued 14 factors from his two second-place finishes within the one-day meets held in Doha and Lausanne.
He skipped the final collection meet in Zurich on Thursday.
The 26-year-old is 2 factors adrift of Czechia’s Jakub Vadlech. Grenada’s Anderson Peters and German star Julian Weber occupy the highest two spots with 29 and 21 factors respectively. Peters had pipped Weber within the Zurich meet.
Chopra, who gained gold within the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and added a silver to his kitty within the Paris version final month, has been struggling along with his health this season.
The Haryana-lad has talked a couple of groin damage troubling him since earlier than the Olympic Video games that has are available the way in which of his quest to hit the 90m mark.
The Indian completed second within the Lausanne Diamond Leg, bested by Peters, who threw 90.61m. In Paris Olympics, Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem had taken the gold with a monster throw of 92.97m.
“First purpose, go to the physician and make my groin 100 per cent match and in addition I will probably be technically higher and attempt to throw far once more,” he had mentioned final month about his plans for this yr and the approaching one.
Chopra had gained the Lausanne leg in 2022 and 2023 and completed second behind Vadlejch within the winner-takes-all finale in Eugene, USA, final yr.
Every Diamond League season finale champion is awarded a prestigious “Diamond Trophy”, USD 30,000 prize cash and a wild card for the World Athletics Championships.
The DL finale will mark the top of Chopra’s season.
Printed – September 06, 2024 12:31 pm IST
