India’s Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra fell agonisingly short of finishing at the top in the Zurich Diamond League, days after he won the gold medal at Budapest World Athletics Championships 2023.
Unlike his wins at the Tokyo Olympics and World Athletics Championships, Chopra saved his best for the last. In the fifth round, he came up with an 85.71 metre throw but it was not enough to go past Czech Republic's Jakub Vadlejch’s 85.86 metre throw.
Neeraj began with an 80.79-metre throw. He committed two fouls after. His fourth throw of 85.22 metre put him in podium contention once again. He followed it up with an 85.71 metre throw which was just 16 centimetres short of Vadlejch’s throw.
Neeraj has already qualified for the six-man Diamond League final with wins in Doha and Lausanne legs.
