Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kangana Ranaut congratulated Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Friday following his silver medal in the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024.
Chopra registered a huge throw of 89.34 metres in Group B of the men's javelin throw qualification round at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday and made his way into the finals.
Kishore Jena's impressive achievements include a silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games and a top-five finish at the 2023 World Championships. He is now poised to compete in the javelin throw event at Paris Olympics 2024
MK Stalin took to his official X account and praised the Indian athletes from Tamil Nadu saying that their exceptional contribution has made the state beam with pride on this international stage.
The athlete had won a gold medal in javelin back in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. With a throw of 88.06 m, he made a mark at continental level, giving signs of a fine future. Previously, he had also secured a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games 2018, with a throw of 86.47 m. Now five
India's Olympic medalist Neeraj Chopra made history in the early hours of Monday, capturing his country's first-ever gold medal at the World Athletics Championships and edging out Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem by less than a meter at the final of men's javelin throw event in Budapest.
In a recent press conference, Neeraj Chopra revealed that injury was on his mind before his fifth throw. Chopra's fifth throw of 87.66 metres helped him secure another gold medal in his career.
Neeraj is recovering from a muscle strain he suffered during training last month due to which he withdrew from the FBK Games in the Netherlands on June 4 and the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland on June 13 Additionally, the 25-year-old skipped the just-finished Bhubaneswar National Inter-State