{"id":12226,"date":"2025-05-17T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/?p=12226"},"modified":"2025-05-17T07:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:46:55","slug":"omega-moment-of-the-meeting-weber-and-chopra-break-90m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/omega-moment-of-the-meeting-weber-and-chopra-break-90m\/","title":{"rendered":"OMEGA Moment of the Meeting: Weber and Chopra break 90m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Neeraj Chopra had waited a long time to finally break the 90-metre mark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indian star had won title after title in recent years &#8211; from Olympic gold to the Diamond Trophy &#8211; yet there was still on milestone which eluded him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday evening, he reached it at last. In the third round of the javelin at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Doha, Chopra landed a 90.23m throw to break his own national record, set a new world lead and finally join the exclusive 90-metre club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet just as it looked to be Chopra&#8217;s night, there was to be another twist in the tale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the final round, the Indian&#8217;s German rival Julian Weber suddenly arrived to spoil the party, snatching the world lead and the victory away from Chopra with a monster final effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wanda Diamond League&#8217;s official timekeeper OMEGA marked Weber&#8217;s throw at 91.06m: a historic performance and a moment of high drama which was this week&#8217;s <strong>OMEGA Moment of the Meeting<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also the first time Weber had cleared 90 metres and only the seventh time in history that two men had done so in one competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The result is a little bit bittersweet,&#8221; admitted Chopra, while insisting he was delighted for Weber. &#8220;I told him that today is the day when we both can break the 90m mark&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weber was equally sporting, inviting Chopra to be photographed with him at the OMEGA scoreboard and heaping praise on his Indian rival after the competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was really happy for Neeraj because he was fighting for that throw over 90m for some time and it was really special to achieve it tonight,&#8221; said the German, who also admitted he had surprised himself with his winning throw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what happened tonight, I think I&#8217;ll have to watch it! I just felt amazing today, The previous weeks weren&#8217;t that good for me, but today I was just feeling great. My physio gave me a really good massage and the crowd was amazing, so the backdrop was great.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Watch: OMEGA Moment of the Meeting Doha 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 500\/281\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FK5N77-kn4iw%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=500&#038;video_height=281)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"90 METRES for Neeraj Chopra and Julian Weber in Doha javelin thriller - Wanda Diamond League 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K5N77-kn4iw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Julian Weber and Neeraj Chopra had OMEGA-record throws of more than 90 metres at the Wanda...","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[1096,6,63,68,1226,904,875,624],"city":[1158],"class_list":["post-12226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doha","tag-1096","tag-diamond-league","tag-doha","tag-javelin","tag-julian-weber","tag-neeraj-chopra","tag-omega","tag-wanda","city-doha"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12247,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions\/12247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}