New Delhi: Neeraj Chopra missed the gold in the javelin throw event of the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Eugene, USA. He won the silver medal with a javelin throw of 88.13 m. At number one was Anderson Peters, who performed unilaterally. He won gold by throwing a javelin over 90 meters in both his opening attempt. However, in spite of this, Neeraj managed to make history here.
In fact, Neeraj’s medal is only India’s second medal in the history of the World Athletics Championships. Earlier, Anju Baby George had won a medal here.
Neeraj started with a foul throw here and scored 82.39m in the second attempt. He was far behind in the final. After this, he came in fourth place by throwing 86.37 m in the third atempt and then in the fourth atempt he took the second place by throwing a spear 88.13 m away. Neeraj’s fifth atempt was a foul and in the last atempt, as soon as he found that he could not throw the javelin over 90 meters, he also fouled this atempt.