New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): India’s Olympic gold medalist and World Champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is now married.
Taking to Instagram on Sunday, Neeraj posted the news and shared a sequence of pictures along with his life companion Himani.
He additionally shared the photographs on his official X deal with, saying that the marriage marks a begin of a brand new chapter of his life.
“Started new chapter of life with my family. Grateful for every blessing that brought us to this moment together. Bound by love, happily ever after. Neeraj Himani,” the star athlete wrote on X.
Chopra arguably grew to become one of many greatest athletes that India ever witnessed after sending his javelin to a record-shattering distance within the Paris 2024 Olympics. Chopra fell in need of retaining his gold medal, ending with a greatest throw of 89.45 meters.
Despite a powerful efficiency on his second try, he struggled with 4 consecutive foul throws, which prevented him from successful gold.
Chopra grew to become the second male athlete from post-independence India to win two Olympic medals in a person occasion. He can also be the one Indian athlete to bag two totally different medals (Gold in Tokyo 2020 and Silver in Paris 2024) on the Olympics.
Chopra’s first and third makes an attempt had been invalidated by pink flags, and his last three makes an attempt had been fouls. Despite a powerful efficiency within the qualification spherical with a throw of 89.34 meters, his 89.45-meter throw was not sufficient to retain his gold.
Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem gained gold with a throw of 92.97 meters, setting a brand new Olympic report and surpassing Denmark’s Andreas Thorkildsen’s mark from Beijing 2008. Grenada’s Anderson Peters secured bronze with a throw of 88.54 meters.
Chopra narrowly missed out on one other title by simply 1 centimetre, ending second within the Diamond League last with a greatest throw of 87.86 meters on the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium final yr.
Earlier in November, Neeraj Chopra’s profitable partnership along with his long-time coach Klaus Bartonietz, which resulted in two Olympic medals, two World Championship medals, and an Asian Games gold, got here to an finish because the 75-year-old German coach has determined to retire.
During their time collectively, Chopra achieved outstanding success, together with two Olympic medals (gold and silver), two World Championship medals (gold and silver), an Asian Games gold, and a Diamond League title. After that, Chopra introduced the beginning of an thrilling new chapter in his profession, partnering with javelin legend Jan Zelezny, who has come 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.
Zelezny, a Gold medalist on the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, has 5 of the highest ten greatest throws of all time and broke the world report on 4 events en path to claiming the present undisputed mark of 98.48m, in Germany, in 1996. (ANI)