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Subedar Major Neeraj Chopra PVSM VSM (born 24 December 1997) is an Indian track and field athlete.Considered as the greatest Indian javelin thrower, he's a double medalist at the Olympics, World Championships, and the Asian Games.
The lone gold medal won by Neeraj Chopra was India's first ever in athletics and the second ever individual gold medal. India also won its first ever silver medal in weight lifting. The men's national field hockey team won the bronze medal to record their first Olympic medal since 1980.
Neeraj Chopra was the reigning Olympic and World champion, having won gold at the previous Olympics and 2023 World Championships respectively. The silver medalist from Tokyo 2020 and reigning European champion Jakub Vadlejch also qualified for the event. The bronze medalist from three years earlier, Vítězslav Veselý had retired.
Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever Olympic gold medal in athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics (held in 2021) by throwing his best of 87.58 meters in the javelin throw final. Chopra is the first javelin thrower from India who won a gold medal, and only the second Indian sportsperson after Abhinav Bindra to win an Olympic gold medal. [11] [42]
Their first ever medal was a Bronze medal won by Anju Bobby George in 2003 in Paris; in the Women's long jump discipline. [ 1 ] Neeraj Chopra is the second Indian to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships. [ 2 ]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
LeBron's accolades include four NBA MVP Awards, four NBA championships, two Olympic gold medals (2008 and 2012) the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and 17 trips to the All-Star game.
Neeraj Goyat was the first Indian professional boxer who went to Venezuela for the Olympic qualifiers before the 2016 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal. [19] [20] [21] He won the award of WBC Asia ‘Honorary Boxer of the Year’ 2017. [22] [23]