Neeraj Chopra on breaching 90m mark: 'Some said it won't happen, I can throw further'

Neeraj Chopra said that while some believed he would never breach the 90m mark in javelin throw, he now feels confident about doing 90m and even 90+ metre throws regularly.

Neeraj Chopra finally breached the 90m mark as he achieved a new national record
with a 90.23m throw on Friday night
at the Doha Diamond League. Neeraj did not win the competition as his long-time friend, Julian Weber of Germany, also broke the 90m mark for the first time and clinched the first position with a 91.06m throw. Grenada’s Anderson Peters came third at 85.34m.

Nonetheless, the second position at the Doha Diamond League 2025 is a small blip on a massive achievement for Neeraj, who has already won two medals at the Olympics, including a gold and the 2023 World Championships. Neeraj won all the major medals in the javelin throw competition by consistently hitting the 88-89m marks but the Paris Olympics, where he lost the gold to Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, showed him that 90m was now a must.

While Nadeem won the gold with a throw of 92.97m and breached the 90m mark twice in the Olympic final, Neeraj settled for silver with a throw of 89.45m.

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