Neeraj Chopra sets world record |
India’s Neeraj Chopra won the javelin gold at the IAAF World under-20 athletics championship in Poland, setting a world record of 86.48m. The 18-year-old’s win at Bydgoszcz is the country’s first-ever gold in a world athletics championship. The young man from Panipat in Haryana bettered the previous U-20 record of 84.69m held by Latvian Zigismunds Sirmais by nearly two metres.South African Johan Gobler (80.59m) took the silver and Anderson Peters (79.65m) of Granada finished third.
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