Diamond League Final 2024: Neeraj Chopra falls short of trophy by 1cm as Anderson Peters grabs top prize

Neeraj Chopra came agonisingly close to reclaiming a second Diamond trophy, falling short by 1cm, as Anderson Peters won the men’s javelin throw event at the Diamond League Final 2024 at the the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on Sunday.

While Peters got 87.87m with his best throw of the event, Neeraj’s best throw came at 87.86.

AS IT HAPPENED: Neeraj Chopra HIGHLIGHTS from men’s javelin event, Diamond League Final 2024

The Paris 2024 Olympics silver medallist booked a place in the final, finishing fourth in the overall Diamond League standings.

Neeraj bagged 14 points from two second-place finishes in the one-day events in Doha and Lausanne. Last year, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics gold medallist had finished two points behind winner Jakub Vadlejch of Czechia. 

The 26-year-old’s best throw of the season came during the Lausanne leg last month, where he threw 89.49m, his second-best throw ever (89.94m being his personal best which he achieved at the Stockholm Diamond League on June 30, 2022)

Out of all the finalists, only Anderson Peters has recorded a better distance this season, throwing a Meet Record of 90.61m in Lausanne, breaking Keshorn Walcott’s 90.16 in 2015.