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Chopra did his initial schooling from BVN Public School in Panipat. After some locals teased him about his obesity, he enrolled in a gym in Panipat. While training there, he saw javelin throwers practising at the nearby Shivaji stadium and took up the sport. [17] In 2010, he moved to Panchkula to train at the Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex, aged ...
Neeraj Chopra: 5 March 2021 Indian Grand Prix Patiala, India [68] 89.30 m Neeraj Chopra: 14 June 2022 Paavo Nurmi Games: Turku, Finland [69] [70] 89.94 m Neeraj Chopra: 30 June 2022 BAUHAUS-galan: Stockholm, Sweden [71] Combined Events Decathlon: 7658 pts Bharatinder Singh: 11–12 June 2011 Indian Inter-State Championships Bangalore, India [72]
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.
The track and field competition at the Hangzhou Asian Games was marred by another controversy on Wednesday when officials failed to record a “good” first throw made by Olympic and world ...
Neeraj Chopra 86.48 m (283 ft 8 in) (2016) ... Stretching and sprint training are used to enhance the speed of the athlete at the point of release, and subsequently ...
Jakub Vadlejch, the returning bronze medalist, came into the competition as the world leader for 2023 and the returning silver medalist, Tokyo Olympic Champion Neeraj Chopra were top qualifiers to the final. Oliver Helander started things off with 83.38m, Vadlejch followed him with 82.59m. The first two throws of the competition would prove to ...
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
Most people plan to either be buried or cremated when they die, but there is another, environmentally friendly option: Human composting. "So instead of being cremated and turned into ash, you're ...