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Chopra won the gold medal with 87.58 million in the best throw at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.
India’s star javelin athlete Neeraj Chopra won the country’s first Olympic gold medal and made history.
Chopra won the gold medal with 87.58 million in the best throw at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.
Chopra, 23, is a former World Youth Athletics Championships gold medalist, defending Asian Games and Commonwealth Games champion.
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Because of you, India shines even more today, Neeraj.
Your javelin carries the tricolor flag all the way, making every Indian proud of it.
Great moment in Indian sports!#Olympic Games #Tokyo2020 #sports # Gold pic.twitter.com/FZ52Ti6EZc
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) August 7, 2021
At the same time, Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, who ranked first in the group in the qualifiers, performed well, ranking fifth with the best throw of 84.62.
-Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) August 7, 2021
The 23-year-old Chopra won the best result of 87.58 meters, better than India’s previous best: at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the British-Indian Norman Pritchard (Norman Pritchard) in the 200m and The now cancelled 200m column won two silver medals.
champion #NeerajChopra, Beautiful woman bowing pic.twitter.com/yYe8oO8VSQ
-Hardikpandya (@hardikpandya7) August 7, 2021
The Czech Republic took the podium at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. Jakub Vadlejch won the silver medal with 86.67m and Vitezslav Vesely won the bronze medal with 85.44m.
Germany’s Johannes Vetter had a personal best of 97.76, failing to enter the top eight, and Saturday’s best throwing result was 82.52 million. (Input from AFP)
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