Neeraj Chopra is born to make historical past it appears. The 25-year-old javelin thrower achieved yet one more momentous excessive on Sunday evening when he grew to become the primary Indian to win a gold medal within the World Athletics Championships with a throw of 88.17m within the males’s javelin ultimate at Budapest, Hungary. The 25-year-old Chopra achieved his finest throw of the day in his second try. He had a foul throw to begin with, however then received 88.17m, 86.32m, 84.64m, 87.73m and 83.98m.

Pakistan’s reigning Commonwealth Video games champion Arshad Nadeem took the silver together with his season’s finest throw of 87.82m, whereas Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic received the bronze.

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In one other first, three Indians completed in high eight with Kishore Jena (84.77m) and DP Manu (84.14m) taking the fifth and sixth spots respectively. By no means earlier than did three Indians end in high eight of an occasion within the World Championships.

Chopra has now change into solely the second Indian — after legendary shooter Abhinav Bindra — to concurrently maintain the Olympics and World Championships title. Bindra received the World Championships title when he was 23, and the Olympics gold at 25.

Chopra, who had change into the primary Indian Olympic monitor and subject gold medallist in Tokyo Video games in 2021, had received a silver within the 2022 version of World Championships.

Earlier than him, legendary lengthy jumper Anju Bobby George had received a bronze within the 2003 World Championships.

With PTI inputs