2021Neeraj Chopra won India’s first Olympic gold in athletics.

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On August 7, 2021, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, track and field athlete Neeraj Chopra won India’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in athletics with an 87.58-meter javelin throw. Chopra became only the second individual Indian Olympic gold medalist after Abhinav Bindra (2008), transforming javelin and track-and-field training programs across India.

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