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Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra expects to breach the coveted 90m mark this year but doesn't want to think about "distance" going into the World Athletics Championships, currently underway in Eugene, USA.
Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra expects to breach the coveted 90m mark this year but doesn't want to think about "distance" going into the World Athletics Championships, currently underway in Eugene, USA.
Neeraj Chopra's main rival for the gold medal will be Anderson Peters of Grenada, the 2019 World Championships gold medallist.
In a recent video that went viral, the Olympic gold medalist Chopra was seen touching the feet of an elderly person.
World champion and season leader Anderson Peters of Grenada won the competition with a best throw of 90.31m which he came up with in this third attempt.
The 24-year-old Chopra was second in the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku with a big national record throw of 89.30m before winning his event at Kuortane Games with a creditable 86.60m effort under treacherous conditions.
Chopra will come into the Swedish capital with confidence after clinching his first win of the season at the Kuortane Games in Finland
Kuortane Games: Neeraj Chopra escaped an injury scare as he fell in an awkward position during one of his attempts.
Neeraj Chopra's opening throw of 86.69m at the Kuortane Games turned out to be the winning distance.
Neeraj Chopra created a new national record as the Tokyo Olympics gold medallist threw 89.30 metres at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland.
The Olympic champion's first throw covered a distance of 86.92m which was followed by three failed attempts as Chopra could not manage to execute a legal throw.
Neeraj Chopra is all set to switch his training base from Turkey to Finland on Thursday to train in Finland's Kuortane Olympic Training Centre till June 22.
The 24-year-old is currently training at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey. He has a personal best of 88.07m and won gold in Tokyo Olympics with a throw of 87.58m
Neeraj Chopra will continue to train in Turkey after the Sports Authority of India's TOPS has approved the Olympic gold medallist's proposal to provide financial assistance of Rs.5.5 lakh approximately.
The Board handed Chopra a cheque of Rs 1 crore while Tokyo Games bronze medal-winning boxer Lovlina Borgohain was given Rs 25 lakh for her achievement.
A panel of more than 1,300 sports journalists and broadcasters of the world have selected the nominees in each of the seven categories for this year's Laureus World Sports Awards.
Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra has been conferred with the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award of India.
Forty-year old Jhajharia has two gold medals in the javelin competition of Paralympic Games, 2004 Athens and more recently in Rio 2016.
Neeraj Chopra is a Subedar in the Indian Army. He had enrolled in 4 Rajputana Rifles as a direct entry Naib Subedar in 2016. He was chosen for training at the Mission Olympics Wing and Army Sports Institute in Pune.
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