NEW DELHI: In anticipation of one more gold medal, Indian athlete Neeraj Chopra, a person of many firsts, will likely be aiming to make historical past together with his javelin when he competes in his second Olympics.
After battling a bothersome adductor niggle for the entire season, his legendary consistency can be put to the take a look at. The qualification stage would kick off his journey on Tuesday, and the Haryana lad is anticipated to go to the finals on August 8, as per PTI.
Chopra can develop into the primary Indian to win two gold medals in a person occasion within the multi-sport spectacle and simply the fifth man in Olympic historical past to defend his championship with a high podium end.
The athletes to have efficiently defended their gold medals within the males’s javelin on the Olympics are: Eric Lemming (Sweden; 1908 and 1912), Jonni Myyra (Finland; 1920 and 1924), Jan Zelezny (Czech Republic; 1992, 1996, and 2000), and Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway; 2004 and 2008).
Regardless of taking part in solely three occasions this yr, the 26-year-old world champion is again to his finest this season, as none of his worldwide rivals have carried out very properly.
With a throw of 88.36 meters, his season’s finest, Chopra completed second within the Doha Diamond League in Could. Nonetheless, on Could 28, he withdrew from Ostrava Golden Spike as a precautionary measure after feeling “one thing” in his adductor (a set of muscular tissues positioned on inside thighs).
With a throw of 85.97 meters, Chopra, who has a private better of 89.94 meters, made a fantastic comeback on June 18 on the Paavo Nurmi Video games in Finland.
Later, on July 7, he selected to not take part within the Paris Diamond League, stating that he had not included the competitors in his schedule this yr.
Later, his coach allayed worries over Chopra’s health, telling PTI that his ward has been in a high-intensity coaching part and that his adductor is properly proper now.
Chopra, one of the crucial dependable javelin throwers of late, has solely twice, in 15 occasions since taking house the gold on the Tokyo Olympics, thrown the spear under the 85-meter mark.
The Indian celebrity’s main challengers will as soon as once more be Germany’s Julian Weber, former world champion Anderson Peters, and Czech thrower Jakub Vadlejch, who gained silver within the Tokyo Olympics and defeated Chopra within the Doha Diamond League.
Kishore Jena, one other Indian competing within the males’s javelin, secured a spot routinely with a throw of 87.54 meters on the Asian Video games the earlier yr, has since discovered it troublesome to surpass the 80-meter threshold.
Chopra is anticipated to supply the Indian athletes some much-needed optimism since they’ve but to report a noteworthy efficiency within the present version of the occasion.
After battling a bothersome adductor niggle for the entire season, his legendary consistency can be put to the take a look at. The qualification stage would kick off his journey on Tuesday, and the Haryana lad is anticipated to go to the finals on August 8, as per PTI.
Chopra can develop into the primary Indian to win two gold medals in a person occasion within the multi-sport spectacle and simply the fifth man in Olympic historical past to defend his championship with a high podium end.
The athletes to have efficiently defended their gold medals within the males’s javelin on the Olympics are: Eric Lemming (Sweden; 1908 and 1912), Jonni Myyra (Finland; 1920 and 1924), Jan Zelezny (Czech Republic; 1992, 1996, and 2000), and Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway; 2004 and 2008).
Regardless of taking part in solely three occasions this yr, the 26-year-old world champion is again to his finest this season, as none of his worldwide rivals have carried out very properly.
With a throw of 88.36 meters, his season’s finest, Chopra completed second within the Doha Diamond League in Could. Nonetheless, on Could 28, he withdrew from Ostrava Golden Spike as a precautionary measure after feeling “one thing” in his adductor (a set of muscular tissues positioned on inside thighs).
With a throw of 85.97 meters, Chopra, who has a private better of 89.94 meters, made a fantastic comeback on June 18 on the Paavo Nurmi Video games in Finland.
Later, on July 7, he selected to not take part within the Paris Diamond League, stating that he had not included the competitors in his schedule this yr.
Later, his coach allayed worries over Chopra’s health, telling PTI that his ward has been in a high-intensity coaching part and that his adductor is properly proper now.
Chopra, one of the crucial dependable javelin throwers of late, has solely twice, in 15 occasions since taking house the gold on the Tokyo Olympics, thrown the spear under the 85-meter mark.
The Indian celebrity’s main challengers will as soon as once more be Germany’s Julian Weber, former world champion Anderson Peters, and Czech thrower Jakub Vadlejch, who gained silver within the Tokyo Olympics and defeated Chopra within the Doha Diamond League.
Kishore Jena, one other Indian competing within the males’s javelin, secured a spot routinely with a throw of 87.54 meters on the Asian Video games the earlier yr, has since discovered it troublesome to surpass the 80-meter threshold.
Chopra is anticipated to supply the Indian athletes some much-needed optimism since they’ve but to report a noteworthy efficiency within the present version of the occasion.
