Overview

• Chopra cleared the 84.50m automatic mark with an 84.85m opener to advance to the 12-man medal round.
• Pakistan’s Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem survived qualification with an 85.28m final attempt for their first meeting since Paris 2024.
• India’s Sachin Yadav joined Chopra in the final with an 83.67m effort, while Rohit Yadav and Yashvir Singh fell short in qualifying.
• Season leader Julian Weber, who has thrown 91.51m in 2025, and Grenada’s Anderson Peters, who led qualifying at 89.53m, anchor a deep, 90m-capable field.
• One regional outlet later reported that Chopra and Nadeem missed the podium, a claim not corroborated elsewhere at the time of this coverage.