Neeraj Chopra qualifies for 2024 Olympics, enters World Championships last with 88.77m throw

Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra wanted only one massive throw to qualify for the World Championships males’s javelin throw last in addition to 2024 Paris Games, pulling off a commendable first-attempt of 88.77m right here on Friday.

The 2024 Paris Olympics qualifying mark is 85.50m. The qualifying window started on July 1.

The 25-year-old Chopra’s qualifying spherical lasted only a few minutes as he despatched the spear to his season’s finest distance in his first try. He topped Group A qualification spherical.

With the automated last qualification mark set for 83m, Chopra, who has a private better of 89.94m, packed up and left the competitors area with out taking any additional throw.

One throw is all it takes 🎶

🇮🇳’s Olympic champ @Neeraj_chopra1 is on hearth in Budapest 🔥

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— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 25, 2023

Competing in the identical group with Chopra in his debut World Championships, Manu completed third and sixth total with a finest throw of 81.31m which he produced in his second try. Manu had received a silver within the Asian Championships in July.

Jena, whose visa was rejected first by the Hungarian embassy in New Delhi earlier than being cleared the subsequent day, ended fifth in Group B and ninth total with 80.55m. It can be his debut World Championships.

Those who throw 83m or the top-12 finest performers from each Group A and B qualify for the ultimate.

Reigning Commonwealth Games champion Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan additionally certified for the 2024 Paris Games along with his season finest throw of 86.79m.

Nadeem, a bronze medallist within the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia the place Chopra had received gold, topped Group B and completed second total.

Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic, who received silver medal behind Chopra in Tokyo Olympics, was second in Group B and third total with a finest throw of 83.50m.

Germany’s Julian Weber was fourth total with a finest throw of 82.39m.

Defending champion Anderson Peters of Grenada, who has been struggling for type this season, didn’t qualify for the ultimate spherical after ending seventh in Group A and sixteenth total with a finest throw of 78.49m.

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Chopra’s World Championships qualifying spherical marketing campaign on Friday is harking back to his efficiency throughout the identical stage of competitors within the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

On that event additionally, he had wanted only one throw of 86.65m to qualify for the ultimate. The computerized qualifying mark was 83.50m at the moment.

He later went on to win gold medal within the last with a throw of 87.58m to script historical past.