World Athletics Championships 2025 Javelin Throw Today Qualification Round and Results Live Updates: It was a case of deja vu for Neeraj Chopra! Just like he had qualified for the final of the Tokyo Olympics with a single throw in qualification, he has qualified for the final of the ongoing 2025 World Championships with a single heave in qualifying.
The day had seen Neeraj Chopra return to Tokyo — the place where he became a Olympic champion in 2021 — to try and win his third World Athletics Championships medal. While the qualification of the javelin throw event is today, Neeraj will return to the same venue for the final tomorrow.
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Neeraj Chopra is in Group A with German thrower Julian Weber, Jakub Vadlejch and Keshorn Walcott among the most notable names in contention. Reigning Olympic champion from Pakistan Arshad Nadeem is Group B, which will have their qualification throws later in the evening. Joining Nadeem are throwers like Anderson Peters and Julius Yego.
Neeraj Chopra is in Tokyo chasing another piece of silverware for his burgeoning medals cabinet which has an Olympic gold from Tokyo 2021 and an Olympic silver from Paris 2024 besides a World Athletics Championship gold from Budapest 2023 and a Worlds silver from Oregon 2022.
This is the first time that there are four Indian athletes competing in one event at the Worlds Athletics Championships, with Neeraj being joined by Sachin Yadav, Yash Vir Singh and Rohit Yadav.
2025 has already Neeraj Chopra breach the elusive 90m mark for the first time, with a throw of 90.23metres at the Doha Diamond League.
Scroll down to follow all the updates on our liveblog from the World Athletics Championships with a focus on Neeraj Chopra’s javelin throw qualification event
Can Neeraj Chopra stave off Julian Weber challenge at World Championships?
Neeraj Chopra and Julian Weber entered the 90-metre club at the same competition, the Doha Diamond League in May.
Last year’s Paris Olympics marked the first time a European male didn’t win a medal in the javelin throw at the Summer Games. An Asian 1-2, with Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem winning gold, India’s Neeraj Chopra silver and the third place going to Grenada’s Anderson Peters. European representation started at fourth-place, Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch, followed by Germany’s Julian Weber sixth. Finland’s fall as a javelin powerhouse showed too — a trio from the Nordic country taking the last three top 10 spots.
A year on from the Olympics, the responsibility of a European medal winner will fall on the broad shoulders of Germany’s Julian Weber at the World Championships in Tokyo. The 31-year-old is having the year of his life, entering the 90-metre club and winning the Diamond League Final in Zurich. He’s thrown the spear further than anybody else this year, his 91.51 metres better than Luiz Mauricio da Silva’s 91 metres and Chopra’s 90.23m.
