Paris DL: 88.16m! Neeraj Chopra clinches first Diamond League victory in two years – Watch the throw here | More sports News

Neeraj Chopra (IANS Photo)

NEW DELHI: Neeraj Chopra claimed his first Diamond League victory in two years, surpassing Germany’s Julian Weber after consecutive second-place finishes in Paris on Friday.Chopra secured the win with a powerful first-round throw of 88.16m in a aggressive discipline that includes 5 athletes who’ve thrown over 90m. His subsequent makes an attempt measured 85.10m, adopted by three fouls, and a closing throw of 82.89m.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Julian Weber secured second place with a gap throw of 87.88m, whereas Brazil’s Luiz Mauricio Da Silva took third with 86.62m in the third spherical. Earlier in May, Chopra had achieved a 90.23m throw at the Doha Diamond League, ending second to Weber’s profitable throw of 91.06m.Weber had beforehand outperformed Chopra at the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial meet in Poland on May 23, the place each athletes competed in difficult climate circumstances. Weber threw 86.12m whereas Chopra managed 84.14m.Chopra’s final Diamond League triumph was in Lausanne in June 2023, the place he threw 87.66m. Since then, he had completed second in six Diamond League competitions till this victory.This marks Chopra’s first win in the Paris leg of the Diamond League collection. His earlier Paris look was in 2017 as a junior world champion, the place he completed fifth with 84.67m.The two-time Olympic medalist started his 2025 season by profitable an invitational meet in Potchefstroom, South Africa, throwing 84.52m in the class F occasion.Chopra’s upcoming schedule consists of the Golden Spike athletics meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on June 24. Following that, the world champion will host and compete in the first-ever Neeraj Chopra Classic in Bengaluru on July 5, a World Athletics class A occasion.