Neeraj Chopra wins in Ostrava despite challenge from unheralded South African

A cool sight at the Mestsky Stadion during the 64th Ostrava Golden Spike on Tuesday — one of the popular European one-day athletics meetings — was seeing world javelin record-holder Jan Zelezny strike up a pose right next to the throwing area for the event, dressed in his business-casual attire.

- GNS News Agency, July 2

The Czechia legend is, of course, closely associated with the Ostrava Golden Spike as the meeting director and athletes in the past have spoken about how cool it is to compete in this event, where his impact is unmissable —in his current role, but also as the meet record holder with 94.64m that he threw in 1996.This time around, he had a ring-side view to watch his Indian ward compete too. In his fifth official event of 2025, Neeraj Chopra registered his third win. He has bagged back-to-back titles as he backed up his Paris Diamond League success on Friday late night, with a quick turnaround at the home event of his legendary coach.