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1 Gold, 2 Silvers and 4 bronzes:
1.3 billion people say thanks to
Olympics heroes on their return
Our BurEau Athletics.
Tokyo/New Delhi PV Sindhu became the only
female sportsperson from India,
ndian javelin thrower Neer- to win two successive Olympics
aj Chopra’s historic golden medals - silver in Rio 2016 and
Ithrow in the Olympics has bronze in Tokyo 2020.
been listed as one of the 10 mag- Mirabai Chanu joined the
ical moments of athletics (track legendary Karnam Malleswari
and field) in the Tokyo Olym- to become the only second
pics by the World Athletics. weightlifting medallist from the
The 23-year-old Chopra country and the very first weight-
created history on Saturday as lifter to win the silver medal.
he became the first from the An artist makes a Rangoli to congratulate Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra The Indian men’s hockey
country to win a gold in track in Surat on Tuesday. (ANI) team, meanwhile, won their
and field in the Olympics. He first medal in hockey at the
threw the javelin to a distance of Olympics since their gold medal
87.58m to pick the yellow met- at the Moscow Olympics 1980,
al at the Tokyo Games. “Most whereas the India women’s
keen followers of the sport had hockey team entered the semifi-
heard of Neeraj Chopra before nals of the Olympics for the first
the Olympic Games. But after time ever.
winning the javelin in Tokyo, The Tokyo Games, which
and in the process becoming In- saw a record representation of
dia’s first athletics gold medal- 128 athletes from India, also
list in Olympic history, Chopra’s registered their highest tally
profile sky-rocketed,” the World of medals from any Olympics,
Athletics website read. which were 7 medals.
Neeraj had 143,000 follow- Ravi Dahiya became the
ers before the Olympics but second wrestler to win the
now has a staggering 3.2million, Olympics silver medal from the
making him the most followed country, while Lovlina Borgo-
track and field athlete in the hain became the second female
world. “Still processing this feel- Olympics bronze medalist after
ing,” he recently posted. “To all the great Mary Kom, and the
of India and beyond, thank you third Indian boxer overall to win
so much for your support and an Olympics medal.
blessings that have helped me The other highlights of the
reach this stage. This moment games included Bhavani Devi,
will live with me forever.” Nethra Kumanan and Aditi
Several ‘Firsts’ and other Ashok. While Bhavani became
highlights came out of Tokyo the only fencer from India to
2020 for India, starting with make it to the Olympics since
Neeraj Chopra, who won the the sport was introduced, Neth-
historic gold for India in ath- ra became the first female sail-
letics by throwing 87.58m at or from India to qualify for the
the men’s Javelin Throw final. Colonel of Rajputana Rifles Lt Gen KJS Dhillon felicitated Tokyo Olympics Olympics.
Not only is this Independent gold medalist javelin thrower Subedar Neeraj Chopra and Olympics semi- Aditi Ashok, meanwhile, fin-
India’s first gold in Athletics at finalist wrestler Subedar Deepak Punia with a cheque of Rs 6 lakhs & Rs ished 4th in golf and registered
the Olympics but also the only 4.55 lakhs, in New Delhi (ANI) the highest-placed finish for any
medal ever by an Indian from
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