Neeraj Chopra resumes training under water in Maldives
Other Sports | Oct 02, 2021, 06:44 PM ISTChopra earlier already announced that he won't compete anymore this season and will start training for the next season in 2022.
Chopra earlier already announced that he won't compete anymore this season and will start training for the next season in 2022.
The 24-year-old American withdrew from five of her six finals in Japan to focus on her mental health.
Neeraj became the first Indian track and field Olympic champion to win a gold medal for the country. A few days later, Antil also struck gold at the Paralympics.
Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra on Wedneday met India's first individual Olympic gold winner Abhinav Bindra, and his family.
The 21-year-old from Mizoram was an integral part of the team's fine run to its maiden Olympic semifinal in Tokyo.
The 27-year-old reigning Asian champion had pulled out of the World Championship trials on August 31 after competing in her opening bout.
The Indian men's team had ended a 41-year-old long wait for an Olympic medal when it clinched the bronze at the Tokyo Games last month.
Chanu had clinched a silver medal in weightlifting in the 49kg category that opened India's achievement account at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics.
Thakur was referring to the four javelin throw medals won by Indians in the Paralympic Games soon after Neeraj Chopra's historic gold medal in the Olympics.
Chopra, who became the first Indian track and field athlete to win an Olympic gold, was awarded Rs 50 lakh and a 'gold javelin'.
Bajrang returned with a bronze medal from Tokyo after going all out in the third-fourth place play-off against Kazakhstan's Daulet Niyazbekov, taking the mat for that bout without taping his knee.
Punia acknowledged that probably he was not in the best of his form during the recent Tokyo Olympics bout as he had suffered an injury. However, he managed to secure bronze.
The hockey star from Sundargarh district in Odisha has been a regular feature in the Indian team after making a comeback in 2017 and has been part of some of the biggest feats in recent years.
In a widely-circulated video on Twitter, Chopra is on the lookout for his javelin before asking for it from Nadeem, moments before his first throw on the eventful night.
Chopra won the gold with his 87.58m throw in the second attempt, and thus became the only second Indian athlete after Abhinav Bindra to clinch an Olympic top podium finish in individual events.
The Indian men's hockey team rewrote history by claiming an Olympic medal after 41 years.
Rohidas and Lakra represented the men's team, while Ekka and Toppo were part of the women's team.
A release from the Defence PRO said Rajnath Singh, during his visit to Army Sports Institute, is likely to name the stadium in the campus as 'Neeraj Chopra Army Sports Institute, Pune Cantonment'.
The money is for Milosz Malysa, an infant with a heart defect whose family has been raising funds for him to be operated on in the United States.
Chief Minister Adityanath also handed an additional cash reward of Rs 25 lakh each to 10 athletes from the state who participated in Tokyo Olympics.
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