A video of Neeraj Chopra, who won gold in the World Athletics Championship 2023, and Javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan is going viral. It can be seen in this video that gold winner Neeraj and bronze medalist Yakub Vedlech of Czech Republic were standing with the flag of their respective countries during the photo session. Nadeem did not have the flag of Pakistan. Neeraj also called Nadeem to him by calling him. Nadeem came and stood near Chopra. Both posed for photographs with the tricolor. Neeraj is the first Indian to win a gold medal in the World Championship. While Arshad is the first Pakistani athlete to win a medal in this tournament. Neeraj won the gold medal in the final with a throw of 88.17m while Arshad won the silver with a throw of 87.82m.
We will meet again in Hangzhou – Neeraj
Neeraj said, ‘I met Arshad Nadeem after the event and we were happy that both the countries are doing better in sports. We are happy to have won over our European opponents. There will always be a rivalry between the two countries between the games. I think after this win, the expectations of the fans for the Asian Games will increase. We will meet again in Hangzhou.’
A video of Neeraj Chopra, who won gold in the World Athletics Championship 2023, and Javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan is going viral. It can be seen in this video that gold winner Neeraj and bronze medalist Yakub Vedlech of Czech Republic were standing with the flag of their respective countries during the photo session. Nadeem did not have the flag of Pakistan. Neeraj also called Nadeem to him by calling him. Nadeem came and stood near Chopra. Both posed for photographs with the tricolor. Neeraj is the first Indian to win a gold medal in the World Championship. While Arshad is the first Pakistani athlete to win a medal in this tournament. Neeraj won the gold medal in the final with a throw of 88.17m while Arshad won the silver with a throw of 87.82m.
We will meet again in Hangzhou – Neeraj
Neeraj said, ‘I met Arshad Nadeem after the event and we were happy that both the countries are doing better in sports. We are happy to have won over our European opponents. There will always be a rivalry between the two countries between the games. I think after this win, the expectations of the fans for the Asian Games will increase. We will meet again in Hangzhou.’
Neeraj did the best javelin throw of the season in the qualifying round
Neeraj threw 88.77m in his very first attempt of the qualifying round, which was his season’s best score. Along with this, he also got the ticket for Paris Olympics.
Neeraj had achieved his season’s best of 88.67m at the Doha Diamond League in May this year. Besides winning gold medals at the Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, the 25-year-old Neeraj Chopra is also a Diamond League champion.
Nadeem picked up Neeraj’s javelin in Tokyo Olympics
Neeraj Chopra has already defended Nadeem. Neeraj could not find his javelin before the javelin throw final during Olympics 2020. Later it was found in the hands of Pakistani athlete Arshad Nadeem.
Many fans of Neeraj started accusing Arshad on social media that he was tampering with Neeraj’s Javelin. At the same time some people said that they wanted to trouble Neeraj. On this, Neeraj had tweeted and told people not to target anyone without knowing the rules. He said that Arshad had done nothing wrong.
Got silver last year
Neeraj Chopra had won the silver medal in the last season of this championship. Neeraj Chopra had thrown the javelin 88.39 meters in the competition held in Oregon. He ended India’s long wait of 19 years for the medal.
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