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World Championship 2025: India's star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has proved his worth yet again as he has reached the men's javelin summit clash of the ongoing athletic tournament during his first attempt. While participating at Tokyo's National Stadium, he needed to just surpass the automatic qualification mark of 84.50m and has now qualified for the final without going for the second attempt.

He didn't just qualify at the first attempt but also threw the javelin at 84.85m and thus reached the summit clash without a second throw. Post clinching the title way back in Eugene in 2022 and then winning a gold medal in Budapest way back in 2023, Chopra entered the event on Wednesday as one of the favourites.

Being a defending champion isn't easy, especially in a well-fought event like the men's javelin. Since there are strong contenders from Germany, the Czech Republic, and Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem, Chopra will aim to be at his absolute best.

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The other Indian throwers, who would be seen in action in the qualification round, are Sachin Yadav in Group A, while Rohit Yadav and Yash Vir Singh are in Group B. Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem, who piped Chopra to clinch gold at the Paris Olympics last year, is also in Group B.

All those javelin throwers who had thrown at the distance of 84.50m have automatically reached the summit clash, and just 12 javelin throwers could achieve this. The top 12 performers from both groups will qualify.

The summit clash of the men's javelin will be held on Thursday at 3:53 p.m. IST.

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Chopra is on the verge of becoming just the third male javelin thrower as he will try to defend his World Championship gold medal.

From the other 19 athletes of Group A, who had recently won the Diamond League, Germany's Julian Weber, 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago, Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic, and Brazil's Luiz da Silva fell behind of the 82.29m throw but then qualified during their second attempt by throwing at a distance of 87.21m.