Neeraj Chopra (Javelin-Throw)
The Karnal-based Olympic champion has a burden of 1,5 billion expectations and he is performing according to the same in the ongoing World Athletics Championships 2022 in Oregon. Chopra went on to break his national record which was earlier owned by himself in the Stockholm Diamond League. In this meet, he threw the javelin to the distance of 89.94m and almost reached very near to breaching the remarkable mark of 90m.
He is defending the champion in javelin throw in Commonwealth Games as he grabbed a gold medal at the CWG 2018 in Gold Coast. Having a gold medal in CWG followed by a medal of the same color in the Tokyo Olympics, the 24-year-old is one of the favorites for the medal in the CWG 2022 at Birmingham.
