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The
The Golden ThrowGolden Throw

Javelin thrower, Neeraj Chopra, scripted history on 7 August 2021 by winning gold
medal at the Tokyo Olympics 2021 with a throw of 87.58m. He became India’s first
track-and-field athlete to do so at the Olympic stage.

He was born on 24 December 1997 to a family of farmers from Khandra village near
Panipat in Haryana.
He holds the national record with an impressive throw of 89.94m.

In 2023, he won two gold medals: one at the World Athletics Championships in
Budapest and a second at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Chopra finished second in the Doha
ACHIEVEMENTS
Diamond League in
Olympic Games May 2024 and went

Paris 2024 on to win a gold
Doha Diamond League at the Federation

Doha 2024 Cup 2024 in
Bhubaneshwar,
Asian Games India, in the

Hangzhou 2023 same month.

World Championships Chopra secured
Eugene 2022 another gold
Olympic Games in June with a
2020 throw of 85.97
Tokyo metres at the

Asian Games Paavo Nurmi
2018
Jakarta Games in

Commonwealth Games Finland.
2018 Chopra had to
Gold Coast settle for silver in the Paris Olympics

Asian Championships 2024 with his career’s second-best throw
Bhubaneswar 2017 of 89.45 metres.

South Asian Games File-O-Fact
File-O-Fact
Guwahati/Shillong 2016
AFI (Athletics Federation of India)
World Junior Championships announced 7 August as National Javelin
Bydgoszcz (Poland) 2016 Day to honour Neeraj Chopra’s historic

Asian Junior Championships gold medal win at the Tokyo Olympics.

Ho Chi Minh City 2016
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