Neeraj Chopra breaches 90m mark at Doha Diamond League 2025, becomes India's ultimate "won it all" athlete
PTC News Desk: India's world champion and Olympic gold medalist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra finally became the first from his country to touch the 90 m mark, a milestone much talked about, during the Doha Diamond League on Friday.
With his 90.23 metres throw at the season-starting event, Neeraj stands in second place to Germany's Julian Weber, who delivered a monstrous throw of 91.06 m in the final set of throws to topple the Indian.
Neeraj rose as a youngster with gold medals in the South Asian and World U20 Championships (2016), an Asian U20 Championships silver (2016), and an Asian Championships gold (2017).
His first breakthrough came at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, where with an effort of 86.47 m, he became the first-ever Indian javelin thrower to win a gold medal.
In the Asian Games that year, Neeraj also became the country's first javelin thrower to land an Asian Games gold with a throw of 88.04 m.
It was his Tokyo Olympics medal that gave Neeraj the high-profile status he enjoys today. On that historic day of August 7, when Neeraj launched his javelin 87.58 m in the air, it also launched his career into the next stratosphere of stardom. Came a plenty of advertisement offers, endorsements, media mics, social media followers, etc, but it did not disturb 'The Zone' of a champion.
- With inputs from agencies
