Chasing 90m with new coach, Neeraj Chopra set to begin 2025 season in Doha

Though he did win gold at the six-man Potchefstroom Invitational last month, the upcoming Diamond League meet in Doha will be the first major test for Neeraj Chopra since he announced Czech legend Jan Zelezny as his new coach.

Despite the fact that he won silver in the Paris Olympics three years after
winning gold in Tokyo
to cement himself as India’s greatest athlete of all time, the year 2024 was somewhat underwhelming for Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra by his own extraordinary standards.

Neeraj, after all, had been bossing events across the world and even if he did not throw the javelin the furthest, it was his remarkable consistency that helped him secure podium finishes across a wide variety of events, on top more often than not.

Let’s not forget the fact that Chopra has also won a gold and a silver medal at the Athletics World Championships in addition to winning the same medals at the Olympics, and is one of only three javelin athletes in the history of the sport to hold the Olympic and world titles simultaneously.

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