Neeraj Chopra Finishes First At 2023 Doha Diamond League With 88.67m Throw

Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra won the first leg of the Diamond League season here on Friday with an impressive performance that was the fourth best of his career.

Chopra, 25, who had won the 2022 Diamond League Final title in Switzerland in September of last year, defeated a star-studded field with a best throw of 88.67 metres to start his season in grand fashion.

Chopra made a world-beating throw of 88.67 metres on his very first attempt, which was also his fourth highest throw of his career, to place himself at the top of the leaderboard. In his second outing at the Qatar Sports Club, he won the competition by maintaining the lead until the very finish.

In his first outing here in 2018, he had placed fourth.

Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic, who won the silver medal, came within four centimetres of Chopra's best throw in the second round with a throw of 88.63 metres.

Silver had also been won by Vadlejch at the Olympics in Tokyo. With a throw of 90.88 metres, he had previously earned silver in the Doha Diamond League.

Anderson Peters, the current world champion, came in third with a modest best throw of 85.88m after winning the competition here last year with a huge throw of 93.07m.

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