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India’s javelin throw ace Neeraj Chopra finished second best yet again, losing to Grenada's Anderson Peters in the Diamond League finals in Brussels by 0.01 centimetre at the King Baudouin Stadium, in Brussels, on Saturday.
The Paris Olympics silver medallist had a best throw of 87.86m in the season finale on his third attempt, but it was a centimetre short of eventual winner Peters's 87.87m effort.
Peters, a two-time World champion, produced his best throw of the day in his opening attempt.
Germany's Julian Weber was third with 85.97m.
The top three led the seven-man field in the same order right through the competition.
The 26-year-old Chopra's sequence of throws were: 86.82m, 83.49m, 87.86m, 82.04m, 83.30m and 86.46m.
After his first throw of 87.87m, Peters logged 86.96m, 85.40, 85.85m, 84.11m and 87.86m.
Peters will take home a Diamond League trophy and US $30,000 after emerging a champion the two-day season finale.
Chopra, who added a silver to his Olympics medal tally at the Paris Games following the historic gold in the Tokyo Games, pocketed US $12,000 for the second-place finish.
The Haryana lad was consistent throughout the season, though he won just one international event -- at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, on June 18.
He had made the Diamond League final cut after finishing fourth in the overall standings with 14 points from his two second-place finishes in Doha and Lausanne on May 10 and August 22.
On Friday, Avinash Sable, India's national record holder in the 3000m steeplechase, finished ninth in a 10-man field in his maiden Diamond League finals. He clocked a poor time of 8 minutes and 17.09 seconds.
At the Paris Olympics, he finished 11th, in 8:14.18 seconds.