India’s Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra jumped 14 locations to occupy the second spot within the males’s javelin throw world rankings after his historic gold on the Tokyo Games.
Chopra, 23, who despatched the javelin 87.58m to win India’s first Olympic athletics medal on Saturday, was ranked sixteenth with a mean efficiency rating of 1224 forward of the Tokyo Games.
But within the newest rankings launched by World Athletics, Chopra discovered himself in second place with a mean efficiency rating of 1315 behind German Johannes Wetter (1396), who got here ninth within the Olympic finals after coming into the Games as a gold medal contender. Stay on
Chopra collected 1296 efficiency factors to prime the Olympic qualification spherical on August 4 and 1559 to win gold within the ultimate. Three different occasions this yr – Federation Cup, Indian Grand Prix-3 and Kuorten Games (Finland) – the place he got here up with the massive throw, had been additionally thought-about within the rating course of.
However, Vetter remained on the prime of the world rankings regardless of failing to make the final eight of the Olympic finals as he dominated the Tokyo Games this yr with seven 90m plus throws.
Poland’s Marcin Krukowski, who didn’t make the Olympic ultimate regardless of the season’s second-best throw of 89.55m, was third within the newest world rankings with a mean efficiency rating of 1302.
Jakob Vadlage of the Czech Republic, the silver-winner of the Tokyo Olympics, was fourth with a rating of 1298.
Showpiece occasions such because the Olympics and World Championships are likely to have extra factors than others in calculating world rating factors.
World rankings are normally launched on a Wednesday or on the finish of main occasions.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
