Neeraj Chopra missed the 90m spot and finished 2nd in Diamond League.

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Neeraj Chopra missed the 90m spot and finished 2nd in Diamond League.

Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra clinched his first top-3 finish at the prestigious Diamond League Event with a national record-breaking effort but missed the 90m spot by a blink in a star-studded field in Stockholm.

The 24-year-old Chopra opened with a stunning throw of 89.94m, just 6cm short of the 90m mark.

His other throws measured 84.37m, 87.46m, 84.77m, 86.67 and 86.84m. He bettered his earlier national record of 89.30m, in the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland.

World champion and season leader Anderson Peters of Grenada won the competition with a best throw of 90.31m which he achieved in this third attempt.