As India’s ace javelin thrower and Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Neeraj Chopra goals to make historical past within the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, US, on Sunday, the 24-year-old will even be trying to nook glory on the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games, which can begin lower than per week after the worldwide occasion. The ultimate might be performed on July 24 at 7:05 IST. Neeraj will kick begin the ultimate whereas Rohit Yadav will go third. Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem might be fourth.
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Begin checklist confirmed for males’s javelin throw remaining on the World Championships. Neeraj Chopra to kick issues off adopted by Jakub Vadlejch as soon as once more. Rohit Yadav goes third within the beginning order.
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A gold medal on the World Championships might be historic for the nation, very like the champion thrower’s top-podium end on the 2020 Olympic Video games in Tokyo. Chopra will even be greater than eager to nook glory in Birmingham, provided that the 2018 version of the Video games in Gold Coast nearly confirmed his standing as the way forward for India in observe and discipline.
Earlier than making his debut on the CWG in 2018, the Panipat native was already a junior world champion and had begun to make a reputation for himself within the senior circuit. His knack of constructing historical past was on full show at Gold Coast the place he hurled the spear to 86.47 metres, only one centimetre in need of then-personal greatest, to win gold.
Whereas his aim definitely could be to win the elusive title on the World Championships on Monday and intention to grow to be the primary Indian male athlete to clinch a medal on the largest athletics occasion on earth, Chopra could be equally eager to retain the CWG title in Birmingham, given the Video games’ historic significance and the truth that multi-discipline occasions generate an enormous wave of curiosity within the nation.
The celebrities are shining for the champion athlete as he continues to bag one medal after the opposite in worldwide competitions and shattering nationwide information with impunity.
A current social media publish from Chopra that he at all times goes for gold is sufficient indication that he’s motivated sufficient for the Worlds and the CWG alike, regardless that solely 12 days separate the 2 occasions.