New Delhi: India javelin star Neeraj Chopra maintained his brilliant form in Austrian capital Vienna by winning the Golden Spike at the coveted World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event the first time he appeared in the competition. The 27 year old after a sensational victory at the Paris Diamond League on June 20 came in as the leader of strong nine-man lineup scoring a best mark of 85.29m. It was a little shy of his high notes in recent competitions but the throw was sufficient to win the competition and continue his amazing year. The Douw Smith of South Africa came 2nd with 84.12m with Anderson Peters of Grenada coming 3rd with 83.63m. Neeraj who had skipped the recent two editions of the Golden Spike meet where his legendary coach Jan Zelezny had earned the coveted nine titles made a splendid comeback in terms of resilience as well as consistency. This season has seen Neeraj at his best an historic throw of more than 90 meters that brought him second place at the Doha Diamond League in May. He followed with a long-anticipated win in the Diamond League in Paris his first since 2014 which further cements his place among the most dangerous athletes in javelin at present. Breakdown of Neerajs throw Chopra started his campaign by fouling on his first shot lifting the stakes momentarily on the Olympic champion. However he countered in his second throw with a decent 83.45m that was well above the 80m requirement briefly ranking him third to South Africa Douw Smit whose personal best of 84.12m brought him to the first place and Anderson Peters at 83.63m as the second. The Indian star found form in the third round throwing a meet-best of 85.29m (the first time to thrust the 85m mark) and rocketed to first place. His fourth and fifth throws plunged a little more to 82.17m and 81.01m respectively but still kept Neeraj firmly at the top of the charts. Although in the lead he did not show any particular interest in his distances even pouting after the fourth one. However this mark of 85.29m stood strong to remain the best of the night winning him the track. Other parts of the contest saw Rio Olympics gold medallist Thomas Rroeler also improve by increasing his modest and low start of 69.35m to a more respectable 77.78m later in the contest. Nevertheless he could not quite organize any actual challenge against the leaders. Smit and Peters held solid games but failed to outdo the large third-round throw of Chopra.