Neeraj Chopra

Neeraj Chopra
Neeraj Chopra (center) in Bhubaneswar 2017
nation	India
birthday	24th December 1997 (age 22)
place of birth	Khandra , Haryana , India
size	182 cm
Weight	86 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	88.06 m (August 27, 2018 in Jakarta )
Trainer	Uwe Mockery
National squad	since 2016
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games gold Gold Coast 2018 86.47 m  Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 88.06 m Asian Championships gold Bhubaneswar 2017 85.23 m  Junior World Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2016 86.48 m Junior Asian Championships silver Ho Chi Minh City 2016 77.60 m
last change: August 27, 2018

Neeraj Chopra (born December 24, 1997 in Khandra , Haryana ) is an Indian athlete who specializes in throwing a javelin .

Athletic career

Neeraj Chopra gained his first international experience at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk , where he was eliminated with 66.75 m in qualification. Two years later he qualified for the Asian Championships in Wuhan , where he finished ninth with 70.50 m. In 2016 he won the gold medal at the South Asian Games in Guwahati and silver at the Junior Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City behind the Japanese Junya Sado with 82.23 m . He then took part in the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz and won there with a new junior world record of 86.48 m ahead of the South African Johan Grobler and the Grenadine Anderson Peters . The previous record of the Latvian Zigismund Sirmais was 84.69 m.

In 2017 he won the gold medal at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with a new championship record of 85.23 m and thus qualified for the World Championships in London , where he was eliminated with 82.26 m in the qualification . In 2018 he took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time and also won the gold medal there with 86.47 m ahead of the Australians Hamish Peacock and Anderson Peters. He celebrated his next title win at the Asian Games in Jakarta , where he improved his own national record to 88.06 m. He then finished sixth in the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava with 80.24 m.

In 2015 Chopra became the Indian champion in javelin throwing.

Web links

Commons : Neeraj Chopra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Neeraj Chopra in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Steve Landells: Neeraj Chopra: I love throwing because ... ( English ) IAAF. September 27, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2018.