{"id":168647,"date":"2021-08-08T02:56:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=168647"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T08:26:36","slug":"neeraj-chopra-scripts-history-with-stunning-javelin-throw-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/08\/neeraj-chopra-scripts-history-with-stunning-javelin-throw-at-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Neeraj Chopra scripts history with stunning javelin throw at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO, 7 Aug:<\/strong> Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Saturday became only the second Indian to win an individual gold in the Olympics, outperforming the field by quite a distance to notch up the first track-and-field Games medal for the country.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old farmer’s son from Khandra village near Panipat in Haryana produced a second round throw of 87.58 mtrs in the finals to stun the athletics world and end India’s 100-year wait for a track-and-field medal in the Olympics.<\/p>\n

Chopra won the country’s seventh medal and first gold in this Olympics and joined shooter Abhinav Bindra (2008 Beijing Games) as India’s individual gold winners in the showpiece.<\/p>\n

With this, the country surpassed the previous best haul of six medals achieved in the 2012 London Games.<\/p>\n

Czech Republic throwers Jakub Vadlejch (86.67 mtrs) and Vitezslav Vesely (85.44 mtrs) took the silver and the bronze, respectively.<\/p>\n

Chopra came into the final as a medal contender after topping the qualification round on Wednesday with a stunning first round throw of 86.59 mtrs. But few would have thought he would bludgeon his way to gold in such a dominant fashion at the grandest of stages.<\/p>\n

With his fifth career best throw, Chopra has done something which the likes of late Milkha Singh and PT Usha could not do in the 1960 and the 1984 editions.<\/p>\n

No Indian has won a medal in athletics since the country started taking part in the Games in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.<\/a> (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TOKYO, 7 Aug: Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Saturday became only the second Indian to win an individual gold in the Olympics, outperforming the field by quite a distance to notch up the first track-and-field Games medal for the country. The 23-year-old farmer’s son from Khandra village near Panipat in Haryana produced a second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}