Athletics
NC Classic 2025: Neeraj Chopra wins his third consecutive international meet-Highlights
Catch all the highlights from the 2025 Neeraj Chopra Classic, country's first-ever World Athletics gold-tier meet.
Indian athletics took a giant step forward today by hosting its first-ever global javelin-only meet, Neeraj Chopra Classic, at the Sree Kanteerva Stadium in Bengaluru.
The Indian 'Golden Boy' Neeraj Chopra led the tournament from the front, guiding four more Indian athletes - Sachin Yadav, Rohit Yadav, Yashvir Singh, and Sahil Silwal- who compete alongside him.
Neeraj came to India with two consecutive wins last month and now extended his run to three in front of the home crowd with a brilliant throw of 86.16m to clinch the inaugural NC Classic title.
As it happened:
Live Updates
- 5 July 2025 3:12 PM GMT
The final round is about to start: Neeraj Chopra is still leading the event
Current Top 5 -
Neeraj Chopra (India) - 86.18m
Julius Yego (Kenya) - 84.51m
Rumesh Pathirage (Sri Lanka) - 84.34m
Sachin Yadav (India) - 82.33m
Curtis Thompson (USA) - 81.50m
- 5 July 2025 3:06 PM GMT
Curtis Thompson of the USA betters his mark on his fifth attempt to 81.50m
Despite that, the American remained in the fifth position behind Sachin Yadav's 82.33m.
- 5 July 2025 3:01 PM GMT
Neeraj could not improve his mark on fourth attempt, but still leads the field after 4 rounds
After 4 Throws:
Neeraj Chopra (India) - 86.18m
Julius Yego (Kenya) - 84.51m
Rumesh Pathirage (Sri Lanka) - 84.34m
Sachin Yadav (India) - 82.33m
Curtis Thompson (USA) - 80.84m
- 5 July 2025 2:57 PM GMT
Julius Yego jumped up to second place with a season-best throw of 84.51m
This also pushed India's Sachin Yadav outside the podium places
- 5 July 2025 2:49 PM GMT
The competition has reached its halfway stage with two indian currently in podium positions
At the Halfway Stage:
- Neeraj Chopra (India) - 86.16m
- Rumesh Pathirage (Sri Lanka) - 84.34m
- Sachin Yadav (India) - 82.33m
- Curtis Thompson (USA) - 80.84m
- Luiz Mauricio Da Silva (Brazil) - 80.31m
- Julius Yego (Kenya) - 80.07m
- Yashvir Singh (India) - 79.65m
- Cyprian Mrzygłod (Poland) - 79.40m
- 5 July 2025 2:48 PM GMT
Neeraj Chopra, with a loud roar, takes back his top position. Throws 86.18m
Neeraj became the first-ever thrower to breach the 85m mark at the NC Classic Meet.
- 5 July 2025 2:43 PM GMT
Sri Lanka's Rumesh went to the top of the standings with a brilliant 84.34m
Rumesh pushed the two Indian throwers a place down to take the lead in the competition.
- 5 July 2025 2:42 PM GMT
Sachin Yadav also enters the top 8 with a massive throw of 82.33m on the third attempt
He is currently in second place, just behind Neeraj Chopra's 82.99m.
- 5 July 2025 2:41 PM GMT
Yashvir Singh jumps up to the fifth place to give himself three more throws at the NC Classic
With a throw of 79.65m, Yashvir knocked out Sahil Silwal, who was sitting in 8th place before this throw, with the best of 77.30m
- 5 July 2025 2:39 PM GMT
Rio Olympic Champion Thomas Rohler also exited from the competition
He has his best throw of 75.85m
