Biography of NEERAJ CHOPRA
With gold medals at the Olympics, World Athletics Championships, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, Asian Championships and a Diamond League title to his name, Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has already etched his name in the history books at a very young age.
The Indian javelin thrower became the first and only track and field athlete from the country to win an Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020. Two years later, he topped the podium at the World Athletics Championships 2023 in Budapest to become India’s first-ever world champion in any athletics discipline.
Neeraj Chopra’s gold medal at Tokyo 2020 was also India’s second individual Olympic gold medal after shooter Abhinav Bindra’s 10m air rifle glory at Beijing 2008.
Heading into the Tokyo Olympics, Neeraj Chopra was, at best, a dark horse in the men’s javelin competition which featured a strong field consisting of overwhelming favourite Johannes Vetter, reigning world champion Anderson Peters, London 2012 gold medallist Keshorn Walcott, among others.
They say a lion always takes a step back before attacking, I think of a setback in an athlete’s life is like that.
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