Chopra clinched the gold with a greatest throw of 87.58m on the Tokyo Video games on Saturday.
India’s star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra made historical past by clinching the nation’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in athletics.
Chopra clinched the gold with a greatest throw of 87.58m on the Tokyo Video games on Saturday.
The 23-year-old Chopra is a former World Junior Athletics Championships gold medallist and the reigning Asian Video games and the Commonwealth Video games champion.
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India shines brighter in the present day due to you, Neeraj.
Your javelin carried the tricolour all the best way and made it flutter with the satisfaction of each Indian.
What a second for Indian sport!#Olympics #Tokyo2020 #Athletics #Gold pic.twitter.com/FZ52Ti6EZc
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) August 7, 2021
In the meantime, Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, who topped his group within the qualifying spherical, got here up with a heroic efficiency as he completed fifth with a greatest throw of 84.62.
— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) August 7, 2021
Chopra, 23, managed a successful better of 87.58 metres to go one higher than India’s earlier greatest: two silver medals gained within the 200m and now-defunct 200m hurdles on the 1900 Paris Video games by British-Indian Norman Pritchard.
Champion #NeerajChopra, you magnificence Take a bow pic.twitter.com/yYe8oO8VSQ
— hardik pandya (@hardikpandya7) August 7, 2021
Chopra turned solely the second Indian after shooter Abhinav Bindra (2008) to win an Olympic particular person Olympic gold medal.
And Gold it’s for @Neeraj_chopra1 .Take a bow, younger man ! You’ve gotten fulfilled a nation’s dream. Thanks!
Additionally, welcome to the membership – a a lot wanted addition! Extraordinarily proud. I’m so delighted for you.— Abhinav A. Bindra OLY (@Abhinav_Bindra) August 7, 2021
The Czech Republic crammed out the rostrum at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium, Jakub Vadlejch taking silver with 86.67m and Vitezslav Vesely claiming bronze with 85.44m.
Germany’s Johannes Vetter, whose private greatest was 97.76, failed to complete within the prime eight, with a greatest throw of 82.52m on Saturday. (With inputs from AFP)