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- Updated: July 23, 2016
Neeraj Chopra had gone into the IAAF World U20 Championships as the world leader but came out of the competition as the world record-holder as the 18-year-old launched the javelin to 86.48m in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Saturday (July 23).
India’s Chopra had thrown 82.23m in February but improved by more than four metres to break the five-year-old world under-20 record of 84.69m which had been set by Latvia’s Zigismunds Sirmais.
“I was hoping to throw far but I never expected to throw over 86 metres and break the world under-20 record,” he said.
South Africa’s Johan Grobler threw a 80.59m PB for silver, while Grenada’s Anderson Peters improved his national record to 79.65m.
Britain’s Harry Hughes was seventh with 72.22m and James Whiteaker 13th with 65.39m.
USA’s Deakin Volz won the pole vault title after clearing a PB of 5.65m on his first attempt to beat Australia’s Kurtis Marschall with 5.55m and Sweden’s world under-18 champion Armand Duplantis with 5.45m.
Volz, who is the son of Dave, the Olympic fifth-placer who popularised Volzing – the now illegal technique of steadying the …
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