The World Athletics Championship 2022 has recently concluded in Eugene, Oregon with Neeraj Chopra winning the historic silver medal by covering a distance of 88.13m with his throw at the Men's Javelin Throw Final event. The gold medal was bagged by Anderson Peters from Grenada. Neeraj has reported an injury in his right thigh while competing for the finals that lead him to pull out his candidature from the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2022.
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Neeraj pulls out from Birmingham Games
Making the announcement about Neeraj's injury, Team India posted on Twitter, "Our Olympic Champ @Neeraj_chopra1 will not be defending his title at @birminghamcg22 due to concerns regarding his fitness. We wish him a speedy recovery & are supporting him in these challenging times.#EkIndiaTeamIndia #WeareTeamIndia."
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Neeraj Chopra's historic win at World Athletics Championship
Chopra was set to defend his crown from the former edition of CWG on Australia’s Gold Coast. Before making his debut at the CWG in 2018, Neeraj was formerly an inferior world champion and had hurled the pikestaff to 86.47 meters, just one centimeter short to win gold.
Many months latterly, Neeraj went on to win gold at the Asian Games in Jakarta, rewriting his own public record. The 24- time-old had since been perfecting his particular stylish and public record doubly and coming within smelling distance of the magical 90- meter mark.
Neeraj made an emotional return to competition after Tokyo 2020, breaking the public record with 89.30 m throw to decide the tableware at Paavo Nurmi Games and also broke the public record again with a gamble of89.94 m to finish second in the Stockholm Diamond League 2022 in Sweden lately.