Neeraj Chopra is the gold medal list in Olympic. He currently holds the titles of Olympic and world silver medalist in the javelin throw. He is the first athlete from Asia to win the men’s javelin throw gold medal at the Olympics.
Neeraj Chopra is an Indian track and field athlete who was born on 24 December 1997. He currently holds the titles of Olympic and world silver medalist in the indian javelin throw. He is the first athlete from Asia to win the men’s javelin throw gold medal at the Olympics. Neeraj Chopra, a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) in the Indian Army, is the nation’s first track and field gold medalist at the Olympics. He is the first Indian track and field athlete to win in the IAAF Global U20 Championships. In 2016, he set a world under-20 record with a throw of 86.48 meters, making history as the first Indian athlete.
Neeraj Chopra performed at both the 2018 Asian Games and the 2018 Commonwealth Games, serving as the flag bearer in the latter and taking home gold in both competitions. Neeraj Chopra made his Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games, winning the gold medal on August 7, 2021, with a throw of 87.58 meters on his second try. He is the youngest Indian to ever win an individual Olympic gold medal and one of only two Indians to win an individual Olympic gold medal as of 2021.
Neeraj Chopra was born into a Ror family in the Haryana town of Khandra Panipat. He has two sisters, and the majority of his family’s members work in agriculture. After completing his studies at Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College in Chandigarh, he got admission to Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, Punjab, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree.
The Indian Army offered Neeraj Chopra a direct appointment as a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) in the Rajputana Rifles with the rank of Naib Subedar after being impressed by his performance at the South Asian Games and his potential. Athletes are usually not immediately given this rank since they are recruited as non-commissioned officers (NCOs). In agreement with the sports quota, he accepted the offer and joined.
Early training of Neeraj Chopra
Neeraj Chopra’s father enrolled him in a gym at Madlauda when local kids made fun of him for being overweight as a child; then he joined the gym in Panipat. He observed some javelin throwers while playing at Panipat’s Shivaji Stadium and started competing himself.
In the winter of 2010, Chopra visited the Sports Authority of India (SAI) facility, where javelin thrower Jaiveer Choudhary noticed his talent. Choudhary became Neeraj Chopra’s first coach after watching the athlete’s qualified 40-meter throw and being impressed by his desire. Neeraj Chopra collected the fundamentals of the sport from Choudhary and a few other more experienced competitors who had worked with a Jalandhar-based javelin coach.
Later, he convinced his family to let him live in Panipat while improving his skills, he earned his first medal, a bronze at the district championships.
The 13-year-old Neeraj Chopra was enrolled at the Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex in Panchkula after a year of training with Choudhary. At the time, the sports facility was one of just two buildings in Haryana that had a synthetic runway. He trained there with running coach Naseem Ahmad, who made him practice the javelin throw and long-distance running at the same time. He and fellow javelin thrower Parminder Singh got videos of the Czech champion Jan Zelezny and tried to copy his technique because Panchkula lacked a professional javelin instructor.
International beginnings of Neeraj Chopra
Neeraj Chopra participated in his first international event in 2013, the Ukrainian World Youth Championships. At the Youth Olympics Qualification in Bangkok in 2014, he received his first international silver medal. In 2014, Senior Nationals was when he first threw beyond 70 meters.Â
Neeraj Chopra’s throw of 81.04 meters in 2015 at the All India Inter-University Athletics tournament broke the junior division’s previous world record; it was his first throw of more than 80 meters.
International beginnings of Neeraj Chopra
Neeraj Chopra participated in his first international event in 2013, the Ukrainian World Youth Championships. At the Youth Olympics Qualification in Bangkok in 2014, he received his first international silver medal. In 2014, Senior Nationals was when he first threw beyond 70 meters.Â
Neeraj Chopra’s throw of 81.04 meters in 2015 at the All India Inter-University Athletics tournament broke the junior division’s previous world record; it was his first throw of more than 80 meters.
Neeraj Chopra got his Olympic debut on August 4th, 2021, representing India in the Japan National Stadium. He had the best throw in his semi-final, 86.65 meters, which earned him a place in the final.
Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian Olympian to earn a gold medal in athletics on August 7 when he threw 87.58 meters in the final.
In addition to Neeraj Chopra’s medal, India finished the competition with a total of eight medals, breaking its previous record of six medals at the 2012 London Olympics. Neeraj Chopra’s performance in Tokyo took him to the second-ranked position among athletes in the world for the men’s javelin throw.
Neeraj Chopra also followed Abhinav Bindra, who won the gold medal in the men’s 10 m air rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, becoming the second Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal. He honored former Indian Olympian sprinters Milkha Singh and P. T. Usha by presenting his success.