Neeraj Chopra qualifies for Diamond League season finale

India’s two-time Olympics medal-winning javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra has qualified for this month’s season finale of the prestigious Diamond League after finishing fourth in the overall standings at the end of its 14 series meetings across the world.

The finale will be a two-day affair on September 13-14 in Brussels. Chopra accumulated 14 points from his two second-place finishes in the one-day meets held in Doha and Lausanne. He skipped the last series meet in Zurich on Thursday. The 26-year-old is two points adrift of Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlech. Grenada’s Anderson Peters and Germany’s Julian Weber occupy the top two spots with 29 and 21, points respectively. Peters pipped Weber in the Zurich meet.

Chopra has been struggling with his fitness this season. The Haryana lad has talked about a groin injury troubling him.