{"id":173247,"date":"2025-06-13T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=173247"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:25:13","slug":"neeraj-chopra-crosses-90m-mark-finishes-second-in-doha-diamond-league-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/neeraj-chopra-crosses-90m-mark-finishes-second-in-doha-diamond-league-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Neeraj Chopra Crosses 90m Mark, Finishes Second in Doha Diamond League 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Neeraj Chopra, India\u2019s Olympic champion, achieved a career-defining milestone by breaching the 90m barrier in javelin with a 90.23m throw at the 2025 Doha Diamond League.<br>He became the first Indian and third Asian to do so, joining an elite group of global athletes. Despite his historic effort, Chopra finished second, as Germany\u2019s Julian Weber produced a world-leading throw of 91.06m in the final round.<br>Chopra, expressing satisfaction and hope, aims to achieve more 90m+ throws in future events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Event:<\/strong>\u00a0Doha Diamond League, May 16, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Neeraj<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Chopra\u2019s best throw:<\/strong>\u00a090.23m (3rd attempt)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Position:<\/strong>\u00a02nd place<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Winner:<\/strong>\u00a0Julian Weber (Germany) \u2013 91.06m (6th attempt, world-leading throw)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3rd Place:<\/strong>\u00a0Anderson Peters (Grenada) \u2013 84.65m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Other Indian Participant:<\/strong>\u00a0Kishore Jena \u2013 78.60m (8th place)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key points:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Neeraj Chopra had been chasing the 90m mark since his breakthrough Olympic win in 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>His previous best was 89.94m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>He has consistently performed in the Diamond League<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2023 Doha DL \u2013 1st place (88.67m)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 Doha DL \u2013 2nd place (88.36m)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 Doha DL \u2013 2nd place (90.23m)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neeraj Chopra, India\u2019s Olympic champion, achieved a career-defining milestone by breaching the 90m barrier in javelin with a 90.23m throw at the 2025 Doha Diamond League.He became the first Indian and third Asian to do so, joining an elite group of global athletes. Despite his historic effort, Chopra finished second, as Germany\u2019s Julian Weber produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":173248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5372],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-173247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2025","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173249,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173247\/revisions\/173249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}