India, May 17 -- Neeraj Chopra finally has the proverbial monkey off his back. The Indian javelin ace came good in ideal throwing conditions on Friday night to register his first 90m throw, a box he had desperately wanted to check for the past few years. Chopra's 90.23m effort though wasn't enough to win the Doha Dimond League as Germany's Julian Weber unfurled a 91.06m throw on his final attempt to walk away with top honours.

Like Chopra, whose three of four legal throws went beyond 88 metres, Weber too was consistency personified as he crossed 89m twice before logging his first 90m throw.

"It is a little bit bittersweet result," Chopra, 27, said.

"I am very happy for the 90m, but this second place - it actually happened to me also wh...