“I have always wanted more Indian throwers”: Neeraj Chopra hails Yashvir, Rohit for Asian Games medals

New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra expressed his happiness following Indian throwers Rohit Yadav and Yashvir Singh bagged medals on the Asian Games, saying he has all the time wished extra Indian athletes to compete on the highest stage and congratulating each athletes and Indian athletics.

Yashvir Singh and Rohit Yadav rose to the event within the absence of defending champion Neeraj Chopra, profitable silver and bronze, respectively, within the males’s javelin throw on the Asian Games 2026 on Monday.

‘I’ve all the time wished extra Indian throwers to compete on the highest stage, and seeing Rohit and Yashvir win medals on the Asian Games is one thing I’m very pleased about. Congratulations to each of them, and to Indian athletics,’ Chopra wrote in an X publish. 

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Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage, the world-leading thrower this season, lived as much as expectations by clinching gold with a finest effort of 88.55m. Yashvir Singh produced a private better of 85.72m to assert silver, whereas Rohit Yadav secured bronze with a throw of 84.35m.

Chopra was dominated out of the Asian Games earlier than travelling to Japan resulting from harm, leaving India with out its two-time defending champion, who had additionally received gold on the Hangzhou 2022 Games. 

The discipline additionally featured Pakistan’s Paris Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, making the boys’s javelin throw one of the crucial carefully watched occasions within the athletics programme. (ANI)