{"id":118933,"date":"2026-08-22T06:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118933\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T06:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:43:20","slug":"0-09m-fine-margins-as-neeraj-chopra-beaten-by-rumesh-pathirage-at-lausanne-diamond-league-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118933\/","title":{"rendered":"0.09m: Fine Margins As Neeraj Chopra Beaten By Rumesh Pathirage At Lausanne Diamond League 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                <img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f1jib6ts_neeraj-chopra-_625x300_22_August_26.jpg\" title=\"0.09m: Fine Margins As Neeraj Chopra Beaten By Rumesh Pathirage At Lausanne Diamond League 2026\" class=\"caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Neeraj Chopra at Lausanne Diamond League 2026\u00a9 Diamond League<\/p>\n<p>                                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Indian javelin ace Neeraj Chopra produced his best performance in more than a year but was pipped to the post by the rising Sri Lankan star Rumesh Pathirage for the top spot by a mere nine centimeters in the Lausanne Diamond League meet on Friday. The 28-year-old Chopra&#8217;s 88.05m throw in the second round, which fetched him the second spot in the nine-man star-studded field, was his best after the 88.16m he recorded while winning the Paris Diamond League in June 2025. It was also his season&#8217;s best throw.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 23-year-old Pathirage continued his juggernaut this season as he overtook Chopra with his third-round throw of 88.14m.<\/p>\n<p>The gap between the best throws of the two was just 0.09m.<\/p>\n<p>Grenada&#8217;s Anderson Peters was third with his sixth and final round effort of 86.69m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n            Featured Video Of The Day&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            Yamal Laughs At Paredes vs Gavi \u2018Fight Of The Year&#8217; Poster During Parade&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>Topics mentioned in this article <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neeraj Chopra at Lausanne Diamond League 2026\u00a9 Diamond League &#13; &#13; Indian javelin ace Neeraj Chopra produced his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[57376,94,11586,54540],"class_list":["post-118933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-athletics-ndtv-sports","tag-lausanne","tag-neeraj-chopra","tag-rumesh-pathirage"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117137808312829829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}