Neeraj Chopra returns to World No. 1 in Javelin rankings, Arshad Nadeem holds...
Neeraj Chopra has reclaimed top spot in the javelin rankings, Arshad Nadeem is fourth.
New Delhi: The Tokyo Olympics gold medallist, Neeraj Chopra has regained the No. 1 ranking in the latest rankings released by the World Athletics this week. He lost the top place to the Grenadian Anderson Peters on September 17 last year, after Peters won the Diamond League Final in Brussels.
Neeraj is now on top of the board with 1445 points compared to Anderson Peters with 1431. Julian Weber secured a third position with the help of 1407 points and gained the position as a representative of Germany, whereas Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem has 1370 points.
Neeraj's World Championship defence
Neeraj will be defending his World Championships Title in Tokyo this September. He started the season at an invitational meet in Potchefstroom where he won gold after recording 84.52m. He threw a personal best of 90.23 m to first surpass the 90m mark in the Diamond League opener in Doha, coming second to Julian Weber. He chronologically set that behind him, by another second-place finish, this time at the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial, in Chorzow, with his 84.14m.
He later won against Weber in the Paris Diamond League and opened up with 88.16m. Next came his third victory in the season at the Ostrava Golden Spike where he had a throw of 88.16m.
Neeraj Chopra Classic
The following appearance where Neeraj is going to take part will be at the inaugural Neeraj Chopra Classic which is scheduled to take place on July 5 in Bengaluru.
'A lot of people had questions. Many even used to say that it won't happen because I have been trying to breach 90m since 2018. I had reached 88-89 many times, but not 90m. So finally, not mine, but the burden is off the shoulders of Indians,' said Neeraj after breaching the 90m mark.
Neeraj is now under training with javelin great Jan Zelezny brought on board as chief coach last year. But as Neeraj just revealed, they only started to collaborate in February this year.
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