Indian javelin ace Neeraj Chopra bettered his throw of 89.45m at the Paris Olympics 2024 with a season-best throw of 89.49m at the Lausanne Diamond League 2024. Though Neeraj has been a World and Olympic Champion, yet to cross the 90m mark in his career so far.

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Neeraj Chopra is currently the World No. 2 player in men's javelin throw. Post winning the record-breaking gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, Neeraj has competed in 17 events and won 9 of them while finishing second in the rest of the 8 events. He has never gone below the 85m mark since then.

Neeraj's target is 90m

The best throw of Neeraj Chopra's career is 89.94m. Neeraj had thrown this throw in the Stockholm Diamond League on 30 June 2022. This throw is a national record and one of Neeraj Chopra's best throws. Since then, he’s been eyeing to cross the 90-metre barrier and will be expected to finally surpass his best in the upcoming events.
Neeraj Chopra's second-best throw of 89.49m came at the Lausanne Diamond League 2024This is Chopra's best throw ever at a global championship and his second-best overall.
Neeraj Chopra's third-best throw in javelin throw came at Paris Olympics 2024 where he bagged the silver medal with an 89.45m throw.
His fourth best throw came in Paavo Nurmi Games in 2022 where he went close to that 90m mark once again.
In the Lausanne Diamond League 2022, held in the month of August, Neeraj Chopra had thrown the fifth-best throw of his career. Neeraj had thrown the javelin 89.08 meters.
Neeraj's sixth-best throw came in the Asian Games 2023 held in Hangzhou. In this round, Neeraj had achieved a distance of 88.88m.
Neeraj Chopra's seventh-best throw came in the World Athletics Championships 2023 in Budapest. In this competition which was held on August 25, 2023, Neeraj showed excellent performance and achieved a distance of 88.77m.

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Neeraj Chopra’s best throws | Full list to date

Rank	Throw	Competition	Date
1	89.94m	Stockholm Diamond League 2022	June 30, 2022
2	89.49m	Lausanne Diamond League 2024	August 23, 2022
3	89.45m	Paris Olympics 2024	August 8, 2024
4	89.34m	Paris Olympics 2024	August 6, 2024
5	89.30m	Paavo Nurmi Games (Turku, Finland)	June 14, 2022
6	89.08m	Lausanne Diamond League 2022	August 26, 2022
7	88.88m	Asian Games 2023 (Hangzhou)	October 4, 2023
8	88.77m	World Athletics Championships 2023 (Budapest) - Q	August 25, 2023
9	88.67m	Doha Diamond League 2023 (Qatar)	May 5, 2023
10	88.44m	Zurich Diamond League Final 2022	September 8, 2022
11	88.39m	World Athletics Championships 2022 (Oregon) - Q	July 21, 2022
12	88.36m	Doha Diamond League 2024	May 10, 2024
13	88.17m	World Athletics Championships 2023 (Budapest) - F	August 27, 2023
14	88.13m	World Athletics Championships 2022 (Oregon) - F	July 23, 2022
15	88.07m	Indian Grand Prix 3 (Patiala, India)	March 5, 2021
16	88.06m	Asian Games 2018 (Jakarta, Indonesia)	August 27, 2018
17	88.00m	Zurich Diamond League Final 2022	September 8, 2022
18	87.86m	ACNW League Meeting 1 (Potchefstroom, South Africa)	January 28, 2020
19	87.80m	Federation Cup (Patiala, India)	March 17, 2021
20	87.73m	World Athletics Championships 2023 (Budapest) - F	August 27, 2023
21	87.66m	Lausanne Diamond League 2023 (Switzerland)	June 30, 2023
22	87.58m	Tokyo 2020 Olympics Finals (Japan)	August 7, 2021
23	87.46m	Stockholm Diamond League 2022	June 30, 2022
24	87.43m	Doha Diamond League (Qatar)	May 4, 2018
25	87.03m	Tokyo 2020 Olympics Finals (Japan)	August 7, 2021
26	87.00m	Zurich Diamond League Final 2022	September 8, 2022
27	86.92m	Paavo Nurmi Games (Turku, Finland)	June 14, 2022
28	86.84m	Stockholm Diamond League 2022	June 30, 2022
29	86.79m	Kuortane Games 2021 (Finland)	June 26, 2021
30	86.69m	Kuortane Games 2022 (Finland)	June 18, 2022
31	86.67m	Stockholm Diamond League 2022	June 30, 2022
32	86.65m	Tokyo 2020 Olympics Qualifying (Japan)	August 4, 2021
33	86.52m	Doha Diamond League 2023 (Qatar)	May 5, 2023
34	86.48m	World U20 Championships 2016 (Bydgoszcz, Poland)	July 23, 2016
35	86.47m	Commonwealth Games 2018 (Gold Coast, Australia)	April 14, 2018

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