Indian Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is the Country's gem. Choprawon the Gold medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020 at made his country proud. He is thefirst track and field athlete to win a gold medal at Olympics for India.
Today is our Golden boy's birthday. As he turned 24 many fanswished him and blessed him with warm wishes. Chopra thanked his fans by sharinga video on his Twitter. Chopra is presently now in the USA. He said he just camefrom his training and saw the wishes of his fans.
Many popular personalities wished the athlete on his birthday.Athlete Pooja Bishnoi took her Twitter account and wished Neeraj Chopra.
P C Mohan wished the birthday boy and wrote, "WishingIndia's golden boy @Neeraj_chopra1 a very happy birthday.
#NeerajChopra joined the 4 Rajputana Rifles as a direct entryNaib Subedar in 2016. He picked up Javelin to lose weight.
The rest is history.
#Neeraj became India's first track-and-field Olympic gold-medallist."
Let's take a look at some of the lesser-known facts of NeerajChopra:
He was born on December 24, 1997, in Panipat district, Haryana.Chopra has two sisters.
Neeraj Chopra is the first-ever Indian to win an Olympictrack and field medal. He won the gold medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020.
He was ranked second internationally by World Athletics in August 2021.
Chopra is an army man. He joined the Indian Army as a junior commissionedofficer (JCO) in 2016. He joined the list along with Milkha Singh andRajyavardhan Rathore becoming the army man who contributes to the sports field andmade his country proud.
He was the first field and track athlete from India to win atIAAF World U20 Championships in 2016. In the Championship he set the under20world record with an 86.48m throw.
He is the youngest-ever Indian Olympic gold medallist in an Individual event and the Only Indian to win a gold medal at his debut.
Chopra joined sports due to his childhood obesity. Children useto tease him for his overweight and to overcome this father made him join the gymnasiumat Madlauda. He developed an interest in playing Javelin throwing by watchingthe players playing at the gym.