Neeraj Chopra With his accomplishment, the star has elevated Indian sports to astounding heights. On Sunday night, the star made history for India when he won the gold medal at the World Championship.
Once more, Neeraj Chopra is the talk of the country. The 25-year-old javelin thrower, whose accomplishments have elevated Indian sports to astounding heights, made history for India on Sunday night by taking home the gold medal from the World Championship in Budapest, Hungary. Chopra, who is already an Olympic champion, an Asian Games gold medalist, and a Commonwealth Games victor, won the final major championship he lacked in his career with panache. Chopra made sure that India left the main event with a gold medal after throwing 88.17 meters.
After the tournament was over, Neeraj Chopra had an intriguing interaction that further demonstrated his degree of maturity off the pitch. Following the gold medal win, a Hungarian woman requested his autograph. The woman was requesting an autograph on an Indian flag, Chopra realized. In place of the Indian flag, he graciously declined to sign it and instead signed the woman’s shirt sleeve. In spite of this, the woman was content.
In a sense, Neeraj has blazed the road. Athletics showed enormous promise as he achieved success in the javelin throw. Two more competitors, Kishore Jena, and DP Manu, as a result, placed in the top six in the final on Sunday.
the present breed of Indian athletes are courageous and have undergone a paradigm shift in terms of winning attitude, according to Gagan Narang, who won bronze in shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
These people lack fear. They are competing to win instead of just taking part, which sets them apart from us. Our generation would travel there to compete or advance to the finals. These youngsters merely desire to compete and triumph. They are driven by a fire within of them.
The other two Indians competing in the men’s javelin final, DP Manu and Kishore Jena, were also congratulated by Neeraj for their accomplishments. In the post-event celebration, Neeraj invited Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, who had won the silver medal, to join him and Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch, who had won the bronze. Although Neeraj urged him to participate in the celebration even without a Pakistan flag, Nadeem was hunting for one. They each gave each other hugs as well.
Neeraj continued acting like a statesman after that. At the age of 25, the Olympic champion, who has already triumphed in every international and continental javelin throw competition, reserved his best performance for last. During his visit to Budapest, Sportstar writer Jonathan Selvaraj claimed that a Hungarian woman asked Neeraj for his autograph. The world champion, who is also one of just two Indians to finish on the podium at the worlds and the only one with two medals, including gold, gladly complied, but Neeraj gently declined when he learned that she wanted his signature on the Indian national flag.
