Athletics World C’ships as it happened: Neeraj Chopra clinches first World Championships gold

Neeraj Chopra clinched the World Championship gold on on a historic night on Sunday.

Aug 28, 2023 - 05:30

Athletics World C’ships as it happened: Neeraj Chopra clinches first World Championships gold

That’s it from us tonight! Thank you for being with us as Neeraj Chopra created history, again.

Neeraj Chopra is World Champion: What a historic night for India! Neeraj Chopra adds the elusive World Championships gold to his Olympic, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games gold medals along with the Diamond League title.

While Chopra was charting his course to history, Parul Chaudhary broke the national record in the women’s 3000m steeplechase event and qualified for the Paris Olympics. To top the night off, the team of Muhammed Yahiya, Amoj Jacob, Muhammed Ajmal and Rajesh Ramesh finished an impressive fifth in the men’s 4x400m relay.

Men’s javelin results

Athlete	Best throw	Rank
Neeraj Chopra	88.17m	GOLD
Arshad Nadeem	87.82m	SILVER
Jakub Vadlejch	86.67m	BRONZE
Julian Weber	85.79m	Fourth
Kishore Jena	84.77m	Fifth
DP Manu	84.14m	Sixth
Oliver Helander	83.38m	Seventh
Edis Matusevicius	82.29m	Eighth

Neeraj Chopra is a World Champion. Repeat after me: Olympic Champion Neeraj Chopra is now a WORLD CHAMPION pic.twitter.com/aQcAOsD5Ms— Vaibhav Manocha (@BeingMinchu) August 27, 2023

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Three Indians in the top 6 of the men's javelin final at the biggest of stages.

What a time to be alive, again. :) pic.twitter.com/NmgkgiAj7J— Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) August 27, 2023