Hello, readers! After a long wait in Paris Olympics 2024 something to cheer about for India fans as Indian men’s hockey team secured a second successive bronze medal at the Olympic Games for the first time in 52 years with a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Spain, giving veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh a fitting farewell, on the other side Neeraj Chopra threw his season’s best of 89.45m to win the silver medal in the Men’s Javelin throw, his second Olympic medal. It was Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem who bag the gold with Olympic record of 92.97m by destroying the competition.
| PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS JAVELIN THROW FINAL RESULT | ||
| Rank | Athlete | Best attempt |
| 1 | Arshad Nadeem (PAK) | 92.97m(OR) |
| 2 | Neeraj Chopra (IND) | 89.45m(SB) |
| 3 | Anderson Peters(GRN) | 88.54m |
| 4 | Jakub Vadlejch(CZE) | 88.50m |
| 5 | Julius Yego(KEN) | 87.72m(SB) |
Neeraj Chopra fails to make two gold medals in a row but he secured the second best throw of his career with 89.45m on his second attempt,while Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem who crossed the 90m mark twice and set a Olympic record.
26-year-old becomes the fifth two-time Olympic medallist from India after winning a silver to his Tokyo 2020 gold medal.Only Sushil Kumar, PV Sindhu, Norman Pritchard and Manu Bhaker have achieved the same with the latter claiming two bronze medals at Paris 2024 Olympics. He is also 3rd athlete after Sushil and Sindhu to win medals at two separate Summer Games.Out of four throws three of Neeraj Chopra in the final have been no throws.He continues to maintain second place after the fourth attempt.Top five throw final at Paris 2024 Olympics have all been better than the 87.58m that won Neeraj Chopra the gold at Tokyo Olympics 2020.This mean how intense the level of competition has been at the Stade de France in Paris.
Meanwhile, only a distance of 3.52m difference between gold medalist Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem and silver medalist Neeraj Chopra.