Neeraj Chopra reigns in the javelin world rankings
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Bengaluru:
Neeraj Chopra
may have settled for the second place at the Paris Olympics but his consistent performances over the last season helped him to top the list compiled by the world's top statisticians who track athletes on the track and field.
Chopra, who came second to Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem in Paris, emerged on top of the list which has Anderson Peters of Grenada in second spot followed by Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic. Nadeem is fifth. Julian Weber ids fourth.
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'Nadeem only competed at the Olympics and the Paris Diamond League (DL), winning the former with the year's two best throws in a high-standard competition. He lost at the Paris DL to Peters, Vadlejch and Julian Weber who all had great success through the rest of the season and were well ahead of the chasing bunch,' Stuart Mazdon of Association of Track and Field Statisticians (ATFS) wrote in the
Athletics 2025, The International Track and Field Annual
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'But the best overall season came from Chopra, beating Peters 3-2, including for Olympic silver. Chopra only had two wins, but four major second places. Peters won three DL meetings including the final but was less consistent. Weber beat Vadlejch 3-2, but Vadlejch was ahead at the two championships, European Championships and Olympic Games,' he said in the Annual, which is into the 75th year of its publication. The first edition came out in 1951.
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Among the other toppers are American Noah Lyles in men's 100m ahead of Jamaica's Kishane Thompson and Letsile Tebogo of Botswana in men's 200m followed by American Kenny Bednarek. In men's pole vault, Sweden's Armand Duplantis, who was mentioned as the outstanding athlete, is first and American Sam Kendricks in second place. Filipino star Ernest John Obiena is in fifth spot.
In the women's section, the Annual said: 'there was no clear athlete of the year with only five women setting major world records. Only Sydney McLaughlin-Levronne set two track world records.'
St Lucia's Julien Alfred topped the women's 100m list followed by Sha'Carri Richardson of USA. Americans Gabby Thomas and Brittany Brown took the top two spots in 200m followed by Julien in third place.
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