Neeraj Chopra’s double whammy, ticket cut for Paris Olympics with World Championship final

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Budapest. Reigning Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra made a stellar start to his World Athletics Championships campaign. He qualified for the men’s javelin final with a season’s best of 88.77m in his very first throw in the Group A qualifiers on Friday. With this, he also got the ticket for Paris Olympics.

A total of 37 javelin throwers, divided into two groups – A and B, competed in the qualifiers to make it to the 12-member final on Sunday. Whose automatic qualifying mark was 83.00 metres.

The 25-year-old Neeraj Chopra entered the championships as the world’s top-ranked javelin thrower. Everyone is expecting gold from him and Neeraj is also ready to fulfill this dream.

At the World Championships-2022 in Oregon, Neeraj came very close to becoming the world champion, but had to settle for a silver medal after finishing behind Anderson Peters of Granada. However, this time he would not like to miss this opportunity.

Chopra qualifies for Paris Olympics

Neeraj also qualified for Paris Olympics-2024 with a single throw. The qualifying mark for the Paris Olympics is 85.50m and Neeraj crossed the mark with his throw.

Another Indian is DP Manu, who won a silver medal at the Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok earlier this year. He too started with 78.10m and went better in his second attempt with a throw of 81.31m to finish third in Group A.

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