Neeraj Chopra celebrates after successful the silver medal within the males’s javelin throw athletics occasion on the 2024 Summer season Olympics, in Paris, France, on August 8, 2024.
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India’s Paris Olympics silver medallist Neeraj Chopra has been named the most effective male javelin thrower on the earth in 2024 by globally-renowned American journal ‘Observe and Area Information’.
The 27-year-old Chopra, who was overwhelmed by Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem for the Olympic gold medal in August final 12 months, pipped two-time world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada for the highest spot within the 2024 rankings revealed by the California-based journal.
Nadeem was ranked fifth as he competed in just one occasion in 2024 in addition to the Olympic Video games the place he got here up with a monster throw of 92.97m as in opposition to 89.45m of Chopra. He completed fourth in Paris Diamond League.
Based in 1948, the journal, which claims itself to be ‘The Bible Of The Sport’, publishes world and American rankings yearly. The journal is taken into account an authority in international monitor and area circles.
Chopra was additionally the top-ranker within the males’s javelin throw rankings of 2023.
He didn’t win any Diamond League occasion in 2024, ending second in Doha, Lausanne and Brussels. His solely main win final 12 months was on the Paavo Nurmi Video games in Turku, Finland.
“Reigning chief Neeraj Chopra vs. 2022’s winner Anderson Peters for the highest spot was likewise not clear-cut. Chopra did not rating any DL wins, however was at 3–2 narrowly forward of Peters,” the journal wrote.
“Peters, for his half, picked up a trio of DL wins. Razor-thin edge to the Indian for his higher Paris inserting,” it added.
Peters, additionally 27, had completed third behind Nadeem and Chopra in Paris Olympics. He had gained three DL occasions in 2024 — in Lausanne, Zurich and Brussels.
Relating to Nadeem, the journal wrote: “What do you do with an Olympic gold medallist who had just one different meet, and completed 4th in that one?
“Thus it was determined that Arshad Nadeem may very well be no greater than No. 5 although he climbed to No 6 on the all-time listing.”
Revealed – January 10, 2025 04:15 pm IST