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Federation Cup finale disappoints as Indian javelin throwers miss CWG mark

Federation Cup finale disappoints as Indian javelin throwers miss CWG mark

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2 min readRanchiMay 25, 2026 10:57 PM IST After three days of record-breaking action at the Federation Cup in Ranchi, the finale turned out to be a letdown, with the javelin throw event not living up to expectations. Despite six throwers with personal bests of over 80m and the presence of Asian Games silver medallist Kishore Kumar Jena, World Championships finalist Sachin Yadav, and Rohit Yadav, the event was subdued, with youngster Shivam Lohakare winning the competition with a new personal best of 81.71m. The major shock came when none of the throwers breached 82.61m, the Commonwealth Games benchmark. Shivam’s effort was the only positive in the competition as he threw four 80m+ throws while favourite Sachin (79.4m) failed to touch the 80m mark. While Sachin tried multiple things to counter the wind, like throwing a flat throw and giving a lot of flight to the javelin, but nothing worked for him on the night. “An athlete can have an off day. I don’t think it would derail him. We will do better at the …

Neeraj Chopra’s former coach Klaus Bartonietz back in India to guide coaches and mentor budding throwers

Neeraj Chopra’s former coach Klaus Bartonietz back in India to guide coaches and mentor budding throwers

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The contrast between Hisar in Haryana and Oberschlettenbach, a village in south-west Germany, is stark. The latter is home to just 130 residents, has scenic hiking trails, forested mountains and old castles. The summers are pleasant. Hisar has a population of over three lakh, a bustling city centre with temperatures touching 43 degrees centigrade in May. For biomechanics expert Klaus Bartonietz, better known as Neeraj Chopra’s coach before the legendary Jan Zelezny took over earlier this year, Oberschlettenbach is home. He returned to the German village when his successful partnership with Chopra ended last October, after fetching two Olympic and two World Championship medals. Seven months later, the 72-year-old is in India as a coaches’ coach at the Inspire Institute of Sport (IIS) centre in Hisar, formed via an MoU with the Sports Authority of India (SAI). October to mid-April was a welcome break for Bartonietz. “There’s no traffic in Oberschlettenbach. In the middle of the village, water comes out of a fountain, we drink that water. We went to the forest to cut firewood. …

Here are the Indian javelin throwers competing

Here are the Indian javelin throwers competing

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Sachin Yadav, Rohit Yadav, and Sahil Silwal will be the Indian javelin throwers participating in the inaugural Neeraj Chopra Classic Event on 24th May in Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru. The three Indian throwers will join Neeraj Chopra and seven foreign throwers in the tournament that has been given A category status by World Athletics “India, here’s your homegrown contingent for the #NCClassic2025! The full list of confirmed Indian javelin throwers for the inaugural edition of the #NeerajChopraClassic is out!” said a post on ‘X’ handle of the event, along with the three Indian names and their pictures. India, here’s your homegrown contingent for the #NCClassic2025! 🇮🇳🎯 The full list of confirmed Indian javelin throwers for the inaugural edition of the #NeerajChopraClassic is out! 📜 Stay tuned as they take the runway in Bengaluru. pic.twitter.com/R3n7B7hVo3 — Neeraj Chopra Classic (@nc_classic) April 29, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Story continues below this ad Among the three Indians competing, 25-year-old Sachin has the best career throw of 84.39m and has won all the events he participated in 2025. He started …

An event named after him featuring world’s top javelin throwers, giving back to Indian athletics

An event named after him featuring world’s top javelin throwers, giving back to Indian athletics

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Even after all these years of competing and winning, like any good athlete, Neeraj Chopra continues to learn. He has a new coach in his corner – world record holder Jan Zelezny – and is getting ready for another season of grind. But that is not all, he is learning things about his event that he had never given a second thought about before. Like lighting levels required at a venue for broadcasting, that is measured in lux – the unit of illuminance. As it turned out that was the reason the event had to be moved from close to his home in Panchkula, Haryana to the Sree Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium, Bengaluru. “The World Athletics requirements for international broadcast needed 600 lux and we needed more. There was not enough time to arrange everything. So, for this year, we are shifting this event to Bengaluru,” Neeraj said on Monday. “Things like that the brightness should be at a certain lux value, I didn’t even know this till now. We just knew that we have to …

Olympic javelin champ Neeraj Chopra to face best throwers in the world for the first time on home ground | Sport-others News

Olympic javelin champ Neeraj Chopra to face best throwers in the world for the first time on home ground | Sport-others News

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In what could be Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra’s first competition at home against the world’s top javelin throwers, Panchkula’s Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex will host the best in the business for a World Athletics (WA) Category A event on May 24. The one-day tournament has been christened Neeraj Chopra Classic, and was finalised after months of discussions between WA and Athletics Federation of India (AFI). Chopra will be competing in India after a gap of 374 days with his last competition at home being the Federation Cup in Bhubaneswar in May 2024. Story continues below this ad “I can confirm the Neeraj Chopra Classic, a Category A World Athletics competition, featuring Neeraj Chopra and world’s other top javelin throwers, will take place on May 24 at Panchkula,” AFI president Bahadur Singh Sagootold The Indian Express. “The other formalities of the competition will be finalised in the coming days.” Chopra, who won his second Olympic medal – a silver – at the Paris Games, last competed at the Diamond League in Brussels in …

Tapping into Neeraj Chopra frenzy, India to host javelin’s 10 best throwers at Invitational meet later this year | Sport-others News

Tapping into Neeraj Chopra frenzy, India to host javelin’s 10 best throwers at Invitational meet later this year | Sport-others News

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Aiming to bag a series of big-ticket Track and Field events over the next few years, even as the country prepares to bid for the 2036 Olympics, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is to host an invitational javelin competition for the top 10 athletes in the world headlined by Neeraj Chopra, the reigning Olympic silver medallist and world champion. On the sidelines of the Annual General Body Meeting of the AFI, its outgoing president Adille Sumariwalla said it makes sense to conduct the invitational competition comprising the world’s best athletes because of the popularity of javelin in the country post Chopra’s Tokyo Olympics gold. “The top-10 javelin throwers in the world. JSW is part of organizing (along with) a foreign firm and AFI. Together we are creating this new competition. Since there is so much interest in javelin throw. August 7 has been called the national javelin day, the day Neeraj won his gold medal. So this is going to be an invitation competition where the best javelin throwers in the world will come …

India to host invitational javelin tournament with Neeraj and other top throwers

India to host invitational javelin tournament with Neeraj and other top throwers

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In an exciting move for athletics enthusiasts, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is in the process of creating an invitational Javelin Throw tournament for top Javelin athletes across the globe. Outgoing AFI president Adille Sumariwalla confirmed the development in a press conference during the General Assembly Meeting of the body. Talking about the development, Adille said, “Looking at the popularity of javelin, we are in discussions of creating an invitational tournament to get all the top throwers to the country with Neeraj Chopra headlining the event.” “After Neeraj’s medal in Tokyo, India has seen a surge in the popularity of the Javelin Throw and we have a National Javelin Day on 7th August. So, the tournament will capitalize on that,” Adille added further. The tournament will feature the top ten throwers from the world and it will be a treat for Indian fans. India will host a star-studded global javelin competition, to be headlined by Neeraj Chopra, later this year: Athletics Federation of India pic.twitter.com/bgrP4GN7o8 — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) January 7, 2025 …

Javelin Throwers in Action- Updates, Results, Blog

Javelin Throwers in Action- Updates, Results, Blog

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Junior National Athletics Championships LIVE: Rohan Yadav and Dipanshu Sharma will be the two throwers to keep an eye on the U20 Junior National Championship final day. A total of 15 final events on the final day of the 2024 Junior Nationals. Stay tuned for updates. Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

Paris Paralympics: Club throwers Dharambir Nain & Amit Kumar Saroha – competing together and pushing each other to excellence | Sport-others News

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Amit Kumar Saroha remembers the day when a friend took him to meet then 23-year-old Dharambir Nain, who had been confined to his village home near Sonepat after a spinal cord injury. “I told him: ‘Beta, has ke jiyenge toh zindagi aaram se kat jayegi. Agar ro ke jina hai, toh zindagi bahut lambi kategi (Son, if we live life with a smile, it will become easier. If we cry, then life will become longer and a burden),” Saroha recalls what he told the youngster who became Paralympic club throw champion in the French capital on Wednesday. Dharambir suffered his injury on June 2, 2012 during a dive in a canal, when he was visiting his aunt in a village near Sonepat. The Badana village native, would spend more than a year in rehabilitation at home with his mother. “My father died in 2011. When I suffered the injury in 2012, the only worry I had was how I would support my mother. When Amit bhai met me, the only thing he told me was …

‘No jobs for kin of terrorists, stone throwers’

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Sending a tough message, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that no family member of any terrorist nor close relatives of stone pelters will get government jobs in Jammu and Kashmir. Shah also said that the Narendra Modi government has not only targeted terrorists but also eliminated the terror ecosystem, resulting in a drastic fall in terror incidents in the country. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever Source link