Paavo Nurmi Games Javelin Event Live Updates: Follow the live action from the javelin throw event featuring Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra among others at the Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Turku, Finland on Tuesday.
Neeraj Chopra, men’s javelin Event, Paavo Nurmi Games Live: After a precautionary break to deal with an adductor issue, Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra returns to action in the men’s javelin throw event at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland on Tuesday.
Neeraj will be in an eight-man field comprising the likes of Anderson Peters, Max Dehning and local favourite Oliver Helander. The event will be Neeraj’s third of the year after the Doha Diamond League and the Federation Cup. Neerah clinched second place in Doha with a 88.36m throw before a 82.27m throw fetched him top spot at the 27th Federation Cup in Bhubaneswar last month.
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Neeraj had bagged the second place in the 2022 Paavo Nurmi Games with an 89.30m throw, bettering the national record at that time. He later raised the bar to 89.94m during the Stockholm Diamond League the same year. Neeraj did not feature in the 2023 edition of the Games in Finland due to an injury.
The Paavo Nurmi Games is Finland’s top track and field competition in the summer and has been held every year since 1957. The competition is a Continental Tour Gold meet, a top-tier World Athletics event.
PAAVLO NURMI GAMES – MEN’S JAVELIN FINAL START LIST
Anderson Peters
Max Dehning
Keshorn Walcott
Neeraj Chopra
Oliver Helander
Andrian Mardare
Lassi Etalatalo
Toni Keranen
Follow live action from the men’s javelin throw at Paavo Nurmi Games below:
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Neeraj Chopra Live, Paavo Nurmi Games 2024: Follow the live action of the men’s javelin event at the Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Turko, Finland
Fitness test for Neeraj Chopra with German wonderkid Max Dehning in fray
“It will be fun to compete with him,” Olympic and World Champion Neeraj Chopra had said when asked about his assessment of young German Max Dehning in April.
Dehning was 19-years-old in February when he became the youngest to throw 90 metres in Halle. Dehning hit the headlines, the history-maker’s unexpected upswing in distance became a talking point too. From a best of 79.13 metres, Dehning had surged to 90.20m. The rise of a new German challenger months before the Olympics was an exciting prospect.
On Tuesday evening, Neeraj and Dehning will be among the eight men at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland. He has a 90-metre throw against his name, but Dehning hasn’t entered the big league yet. Since his big throw, he has orbited between the 80-82 metre mark. A 12th-place finish in the European Championships last week saw him dip to 76.16 metres. “Your only competition is yourself,” he had posted on Instagram from Rome. READ MORE
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First uploaded on: 18-06-2024 at 21:13 IST
