Athletics, Lausanne Diamond League as it happened: Neeraj Chopra finishes second

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Men’s Javelin Throw: Anderson Peters and Jakub Vadlejch qualify for the Diamond League Final with 21 and 16 points respectively. Both Neeraj Chopra and Julian Weber have 14 points in third and fourth respectively. They have done enough to qualify for the final bar any surprise results in the last Diamond League meet in Zurich in two weeks time.

Men’s Javelin Throw: NEERAJ CHOPRA! Out of nowhere the Tokyo 2020 champion comes up with a huge throw to pip Julian Weber to second spot! A massive 89.49m attempt from the Indian. Chopra thought he might have finally gotten past the 90m mark but falls short by 51cms. Peters is the first to hug Chopra with the Indian frustrated to once again miss out on going past the 90m mark.

Men’s Javelin Throw: NEERAJ CHOPRA! Out of nowhere the Tokyo 2020 champion comes up with a huge throw to pip Julian Weber to second spot! A massive 89.49m attempt from the Indian. Chopra thought he might have finally gotten past the 90m mark but falls short by 51cms. Peters is the first to hug Chopra with the Indian frustrated to once again miss out on going past the 90m mark.

Men’s Javelin Throw: Peters! He breaks the meeting record with a huge 90.61m throw! That should be first place wrapped up for the Grenada national.

Men’s Javelin Throw: No marks from Yego and Vadlejch with their respective fifth attempts. Mardare also cannot better his mark and so Chopra continues his extraordinary run of top three finishes! He will get one extra throw along with Peters and Weber.

Men’s Javelin Throw: Clutch throw from Chopra! Throws the javelin 85.58m and jumps into the top three! It will be an anxious wait for the Indian now with four more throwers including Vadlejch left to throw.

Men’s Javelin Throw: Four rounds done and the ranks stay the same. Chopra has one more chance to maintain his run of podium finishes which began way back in 2018.

Men’s Javelin Throw: The order of throws have been changed with the leader Peters going first and eighth-placed Andrian Mardare to throw last. Peters throws 86.59m with his fourth attempt. Weber and Felfner both post no marks while Chopra can only muster 82.34m to stay in fourth.

Men’s Javelin Throw: After the first three rounds, Etelatalo and Matusevicius finish ninth and tenth respectively and bow out of the competition. Chopra is fourth and far from his best so far.

Men’s Javelin Throw: Peters is on fire tonight! An 87.40m throw with his third attempt but it is not enough to better his mark. Weber also unable to better his mark. Vadlejch finally gets past the 80m mark with an 81.76m attempt with his third try. Yego then hurls the javelin 83m to push Vadlejch down to seventh.

Men’s Javelin Throw: Ukraine’s Artur Felfner jumps to third with a throw of 83.38m. Chopra cannot improve on his mark with his third attempt. He throws 83.13m and stays in fourth.

Men’s Javelin Throw: A monster throw from Peters with his second attempt! Hurls the javelin 88.49m to better his mark! Weber also betters his mark with an 87.08m attempt.

Men’s Javelin Throw: Chopra takes back the third place from Dean but just about. Comes up with an 83.21m throw with his second attempt.

Men’s Javelin Throw: Roderick Genki Dean comes up with a season’s best throw of 83.19m to climb above Chopra in the standings. At the end of the first round, Peters is in the lead followed by Weber, Dean and Chopra.

Men’s Javelin Throw: Edis Matusevicius and Lassi Etelatalo also with no marks with their first throws. Julius Yego can only muster 76.47m with his first throw.

Men’s Javelin Throw: Vadlejch follows Chopra and it is a no mark from the Czech athlete. Anderson Peters takes the lead with a solid 86.36m throw. Germany’s Julian Weber throws 85.07m and is second behind Peters.

Men’s Javelin Throw: An 82.10m first throw from Chopra. Nowhere near his best but good to get on the board nonetheless.

Men’s Javelin Throw: We do not have a dedicated stream for the javelin throw which means we’ll have to rely on the Diamond League website for updates. Chopra will be the first to throw tonight.

Men’s Javelin Throw: A quick refresher on the javelin throw event at a Diamond League meet takes place. Each of the 10 athletes will get a minimum of three throws. After the third round, the top eight will get an additional two throws. At the end of the five throws, the top three will get an extra throw.

Men’s Javelin Throw: The Lausanne meet is the third of four Diamond League meets to feature the men’s javelin throw event. Chopra is currently fourth in the standings behind 2023 Diamond League final winner Jakub Vadlejch, Anderson Peters and Julian Weber.

Chopra has only competed in Doha where he finished second to win seven points. Only the top six in the standings at the end of the four Diamond League meets will qualify for the final which will be held in Brussels in September.

Chopra could qualify for the final with a top-two finish tonight.

Hello and welcome to Scroll’s coverage of the Diamond League meet in Lausanne.

It has been only 13 days since the men’s javelin throw final came to an end at the 2024 Paris Olympics and the world’s top javelin throwers are already back in action on the Diamond League circuit.

Seven of the 12 finalists from Paris are in action in Lausanne tonight including silver medallist Neeraj Chopra and bronze medallist Anderson Peters. Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, who pipped Chopra to the title with an Olympic Record throw, is not in action tonight however.

Stay tuned for live action!

All screenshots courtesy Jio Cinema and Diamond League website