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Promising to be 100 per cent match for the brand new season, India’s two-time Olympic medal-winning javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra on Friday mentioned a podium end within the 2025 Tokyo World Championships is the following huge goal on his thoughts going ahead. The 26-year-old is again within the nation after winding up his season with a second-place end on the Diamond League finale in Brussels. This was after he grew to become the primary Indian track-and-field athlete to say successive Olympic medals by including a silver in Paris to the momentous gold clinched in Tokyo.
“The season is over now. The most important goal for subsequent yr is the World Championship, and we are going to start preparations for that now. The Olympics are all the time on our minds, however we’ve got 4 years for that,” Neeraj informed PTI Movies on the sidelines of a convention on ‘Mission Olympics 2036’ organised on the Sports activities College of Haryana right here.
The world championship is scheduled to be held from September 13 to 21 subsequent yr.
Chopra battled an adductor muscle niggle all year long and it additionally affected his efficiency at each the Olympics and the DL finale, the place he additionally competed with a fractured left hand.
He had spoken about consulting medical doctors on the finish of the season to resolve whether or not to go for a surgical procedure to repair the issue.
Requested about his health, Chopra performed down considerations and in addition said that he’ll look to enhance his approach. The Haryana-lad is skilled by famend German biomechanics skilled Klaus Bartonietz.
“It was an injury-plagued yr however harm is okay now, I might be 100 per cent match for the brand new season,” he asserted.
“Technical points are additionally there however we are going to work on them. I’ll look to enhance my approach. I do like to coach in India however when competitions begin, I favor to coach overseas,” he mentioned.
Reflecting on India’s Olympic efficiency, which yielded six medals however no gold this time, Chopra identified that the nation may have gotten extra as mirrored by the half a dozen fourth place finishes.
“There have been a variety of fourth positions. (However) this time, we had an excellent efficiency within the Paralympics and gained a number of medals.
“Within the coming instances, we count on sturdy performances in each the Olympics and the Paralympics,” mentioned Chopra.
Chopra has been working onerous to hit the 90m mark however hasn’t managed up to now regardless of coming shut. Within the Paris Olympics, his silver-winning throw was 89.45m and he was bested by Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, who broke the Video games file with a 92.97m effort.
On the DL finale, Chopra threw 87.86m to overlook the highest end by only one centimetre.
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