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In the Tokyo Olympics, Neeraj Chopra became the second Indian to win a gold medal. Fans hope he will win a gold medal in today’s 2024 Paris Olympics event. Neeraj Chopra started his journey in the Paris Olympics with a bang and stormed into the javelin final with an 89.34m throw. The Arjuna Award winner is all set to win another medal for India at the Olympics, and Indians are hoping he will win the gold medal. In a few hours, the javelin throw event will begin.
India is waiting with bated breath to see this star athlete defend his title. In the meantime, many have taken to social media to share their reactions while waiting for the action to start, with many confidently saying that Neeraj Chopra will bring home gold in this Olympics, too.
If Neeraj Chopra win today, it will be not only add a gold medal to India’s list of Olympic wins but also make him the first Indian athlete to win multiple gold medals in the Olympics. In Tokyo, we threw in the sunshine, but here it’s a bit cooler and the is much lower. Tokyo was a much warmer and more humid than Paris. The big difference between is the there are crowd here.
in the challenge of depending his a title, Being the defending champion is a motivation and I need to be prepared. The mind should be a focused on doing the job at hand. Talking about his throw during the qualification round, Neeraj said that though his throw was good, the final remains the real to deal. The final will be a cracker. The Tokyo final mark has already been surprised qualification. We were a relaxed today. The burden and pressure will be a much more in the final, he added.
Neeraj Chopra Aims to make it two-in-two with historic Gold Medal in Paris Olympics
The athlete created history after participating in the Tokyo Olympics and becoming the second Indian to win an gold medal. the Olympics after shooter Abhinav Bindra. In a over 120 years, he became the first Indian to win an Olympic medal. In the men’s javelin throw event, he will win the gold medal with a throw of 87.58m in his second attempt. Chopra also discussed his injury concerns and said. I have had a few issue with my groin & that is why I did not take part in a lot of competitions. It is a important to stay and reach the final.
The final clash is a Neeraj mother Saroj said to ANI, The preparations are going very well. He has worked very hard. We are hoping for gold. We are all happy. His father Satish Kumar also said, We are all very excited. Neeraj will give a his best to live up to the expectations. Everyone in the village is happy and waiting for his match. Chopra won the gold medal in the men javelin throw competition at the Paavo Nurmi Games 2024 athletics meet in Turku, Finland and earlier in June.
The Indian registered a throw of modest 85.97 m, in his third attempt to win the top podium. Neeraj Chopra at the world and Olympic champion, was competing in his third event of the year. On the road to defend his crown at the Paris 2024 Olympics later this year, Neeraj started his Journey with a second-place finish at the Doha Diamond League on May 10 with an 88.36m throw.
He is the logged a modest 82.27m to bag the gold medal at the Federation Cup in Bhubaneswar five days later. It was a his first competition in the India becoming an Olympic champion. Neeraj was also scheduled to complete at the Ostrava Golden Spike athletics meet in Czechia during late May. but did not participate as a precautionary measure after a muscle tweak during a training period.
Neeraj Chopra: Early Life and Education
Neeraj Chopra was born in a Ror family in Khandra, a village in Panipat, Haryana. He has two sisters and his family is largely involved in agriculture. He did his schooling from BVN Public School. He graduated from Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College in Chandigarh, and as of 2021, was pursuing a Bachelor of Arts from Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, Punjab.
Impressed the Chopra performance at the South Asian Games and his future potential.The Indian Army offered a direct appointment as a Junior Commissioner Officer (JCO) in the Rajputana Rifles with the rank of Naib Subedar. He is accepted the offer and joined the army under a sports quota.
Early Training
After a local children teased him about his childhood obesity, Chopra father enter him in a gymnasium at Madlauda. he was later enrolled in a gym in Panipat. While playing at Shivaji stadium in Panipat, he saw some javelin throwers and began participating himself.
Chopra visited the Panipat Sports Authority of India (SAI) center, where javelin thrower Akshay Choudhary from Ghaziabad and Neeraj practiced early talent in the winter of 2010. Chopra ability to achieve a 40-metre throw without training and impressed by his Coach.
Choudhary became a his first coach. Chopra learned the basics of the sport from Choudhary and a few more experienced athletes. He will won his first medal in a bronze in the district championship and then persuaded his family to allow him to live in Panipat and develop his abilities.
Chopra receiving the Arjuna Award from Ram Nath Kovind, President of India on 25 September 2018. After he training in under Choudhary for a year, the 13-year-old Chopra was admitted to the Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex in Panchkula.
The sports complex was then one of only two facilities in the state of Haryana with a synthetic runway. he trained in under coach Naseem Ahmad. A running coach who made him train in long-distance running along with the javelin throw. As Panchkula lacked a specialized IN javelin coach. he follow the javelin thrower Parminder Singh download videos of the Czech champion Jan Zelezny the attempt to copy his style.
While initially at Tau Devi, Chopra typically achieve a throws of around 55 meters, but increased his range and in the National Junior Athletics Championship in Lucknow on 27 October in 2012 . he won gold with a new national record throw of 68.40 meters.
Neeraj Chopra International Beginnings
In 2013, Neeraj Chopra entered in his first international competition, the World Youth Championships in Ukraine. He won his first international medal in 2014, a silver in the Youth Olympics Qualification in Bangkok. He acheived the first throw of his over 70 metres at the 2014 senior nationals. In 2015, Chopra broke his previous world record in the junior category, throwing 81.04 metres in 2015 All India Inter-University Athletics meet, this was his first throw of over 80 metres.
Chopra finished fifth in the 2015 National Games in Kerala and received a callback for the national level training camp as a result leaving Panchkula in 2016 to train at Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports, Patiala. According to Chopra, his inclusion in the national camp marked a turning point of his career, as he received better facilities, a better quality diet and an improved standard of training from that available at Panchkula.
training with national level javelin throwers boosted his morale. Chopra is also assigned for the first dedicated javelin coach, 2010 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Kashinath Naik, but found Naik’s training regimen more difficult and resumed training on his own after a month and a half.
At the 2016 South Asian Games, Chopra performed a new personal best during the athletics finals of him in Guwahati on 9 February, winning gold with a throw of 82.23 meters, though falling short of the 83-meter Olympic qualifying mark.
He also started to take a training under Australian coach Gary Calvert in that month. Chopra won a gold medal in 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland and set a world junior record of 86.48 m, becoming the first Indian athlete to achieve a world record, at the same time setting a new national record. Even though his U20 record surpassed that of defending in the Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott.
Chopra failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics as the cut-off date that is 11 July, the before week of the U20 championships. His preparations for Rio had also been hampered by a back injury in April 2016 during the Federation Cup in New Delhi, which is affected on his performance in the competition.
In September 2016, he left the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports to take training in the Sports Authority of India centre at Bangalore. He was formally hired as a JCO in December 2016 and subsequently received extended leave to continue his training. Chopra won a gold medal in 2017 at Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. Chopra won gold in 2017 at Asian Athletics Championships with a throw of 85.23 metres.
After that he went to London in August for the World Championships, but he was eliminated before reaching the finals. On 24 August, unfortunately Chopra suffered with a groin injury in the finals of the Zurich Diamond League, sustaining the injury during his third attempted throw, in which he reached a distance of 83.39 meters, suffering with the injury, he fouled his fourth attempt and skipped his last two allowed attempts. His first and the best throw of 83.80 meters gave seventh place in the finish. Suffering by his injury, he dropped from the competition for remainder in 2017.