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Paris Olympics 2024: Neeraj Chopra got silver in the men;s javelin throw event (PTI)
Neeraj Chopra bagged silver medal at Paris 2024 to become the first Indian track-and-field athlete to win two Olympic medals.
Neeraj Chopra clinched a silver medal in the men’s javelin throw final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, his second medal at the Summer Games – which makes him India’s most successful Olympian.
Neeraj bagged silver with a distance of 89.45m as Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem broke the Olympic record with a 92.97m effort and won gold.
With his silver, Chopra becomes the first Indian track-and-field athlete to win two Olympic medals. The 26-year-old Haryana-based javelin star had won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago.
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Abhinav Bindra was the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The star shooter, however, did not win any more medals in the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
A podium finish for Chopra in the Paris Olympics 2024 also makes Neeraj the third athlete after wrestler Sushil Kumar and shuttler PV Sindhu to win medals in back-to-back Olympics for India.
Sushil won a bronze medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a silver in the 2012 London Olympics, whereas Sindhu won silver in the Rio Olympics and bronze in Tokyo.
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The two-time Olympic medallist participated in the ongoing Paris Olympics as well but failed to qualify for the medal rounds. She suffered a straight-set defeat against He Bing Jiao of China during her Round of 16 match.
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India’s most successful event at the Olympics though remains men’s field hockey. The Indian men’s hockey team clinched a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics to take their tally to a whopping 13 medals in the event.
After missing from the podium for an unbelievable 41 years before the jinx was broken at the 2020 Tokyo Games with a bronze medal, the Harmnapreet Singh-led side clinched a medal in back-to-back editions of the Summer games for the first time in 52 years.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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