Neeraj seals gold at Ostrava meet; Peters finishes third
New Delhi, June 25 -- Four days after winning the Paris Diamond League with a throw of 88.16m, reigning world champion Neeraj Chopra won the Ostrava Golden Spike Meet -- a World Athletics Continental Tour (Gold level) meeting -- on his maiden appearance on Tuesday.
Chopra, a two-time Olympic medallist, produced a best effort of 85.29m to win the event ahead of South Africa's Douw Smit, who threw a personal best of 84.12m, and Grenada's Anderson Peters whose best effort of the night was a below-par 83.63m.
The reigning world champion opened the competition with a foul but recorded 83.45m on his next attempt to jump to third spot behind Smit and Peters' first throw of 83.63m. Chopra then ramped it up with a 85.29m effort to jump into the lead...
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