New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): India’s ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra’s t-shirt, which he wore within the Paris 2024 Olympics, has been inducted into the distinguished World Athletics Heritage Collection.
The reigning World Champions and the Paris 2024 Olympics silver medallist is amongst 23 athletes whose competitors artefacts had been not too long ago added to the World Athletics Heritage Collection.
“Keeping our Olympic collection up to date, we are proud today to be announcing donations from a trio of Paris 2024 medallists: Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Thea LaFond and Neeraj Chopra,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe stated as quoted from Olympics.com.
Other Paris 2024 medallists who additionally contributed to the distinctive assortment featured Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who donated her singlet, title bib and shorts. Yaroslava shattered the world excessive leap report on the Paris Diamond League earlier than claiming Olympic gold this yr.
Dominica’s first Olympic medallist, Thea LaFond, gifted the crop prime she wore throughout her victorious triple leap last at Paris 2024. In whole, 32 artefacts associated to 23 athletes from 12 nations had been added to the World Athletics Heritage Collection this week.
Neeraj has redefined the panorama of athletics in India and on the worldwide stage. He made historical past in Tokyo by changing into the primary Indian to win a gold medal on the Olympics. He adopted it up with a silver in Paris 2024, with a throw of 89.45m.
He missed out on defending his crown after his arch-rival Arshad Nadeem produced an Olympic report effort by sending his javelin to a distance of 92.97m.
Recently, Neeraj introduced the beginning of an thrilling new chapter in his profession, partnering with Javelin legend Jan Zelezny, who got here on board as his new coach.
Zelezny, a three-time Olympic and World champion and the present world report holder, has lengthy been an idol to Chopra. (ANI)