Neeraj takes dwelling staggering quantity after historic World Championships gold

Neeraj takes dwelling staggering quantity after historic World Championships gold [ad_1]

Neeraj Chopra added the World Athletics Championships gold to his already teeming checklist of accolades. Chopra had already been certainly one of simply two Indians with a World Championships and now, he has grow to be the one one from his nation with two medals within the competitors and the primary to win gold. Chopra had began off with a foul throw within the closing in Budapest on Sunday. Nevertheless, his second throw turned out to be the profitable one as he managed to get the javelin to a distance of 88.17m. It helped him keep forward of Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem, who himself made historical past for his his nation by profitable silver and Czech Republich's Jakub Vadlejch.

India’s Neeraj Chopra celebrating in the course of the podium ceremony for the boys’s javelin throw(HT_PRINT)

Neeraj was awarded gold in an official podium ceremony after the day's competitions had been over earlier than the Indian nationwide anthem was performed. He takes hom a money prinze cash of $70,000 (round Rs58 lakh). Nadeem, in the meantime, gained the silver with a throw of 87.82m, and Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch (86.67m) bagged the bronze medal. Nadeem bought a money award of $35,000. Vadlejch bought $22,000.

Neeraj is now simply the third javelin thrower after his idol Jan Zelezny and Norway's Andreas Thorkildsen to have completed the treble of profitable gold within the Continental, Olympic and World Championships. He had gained gold on the 2018 Asian Video games in Jakarta, gold on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and now on the 2023 World Athletics Championships. He's the primary Indian javelin thrower to win gold on the Commonwealth Video games, Asian Video games, Olympics and the athletics World Championships. Along with that, he was junior World Champion in 2016 and gained the Diamond League in 2022.

Among the many main senior competitions he has competed in since 2017, it's only on the 2022 World Championships that he missed out on gold. He had gained silver attributable to Grenada's Anderson Peters managing a monster throw of 90.54. Even that was one of the best consequence any Indian had ever managed within the competitors. It additionally made him certainly one of simply two Indian athletes to have gained a medal within the competitors. Anju Bobby George was the primary when she gained bronze in ladies's lengthy soar on the 2003 Paris World Championships. Neeraj's efficiency on Sunday thus made him the primary Indian to win multiple athletics World Championships medals in his profession.

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