Injury is fine now, next big target is 2025 World Championship: Neeraj Chopra
The Hindu
Neeraj Chopra aims for World Championship podium after successful Olympic season, overcoming injuries and focusing on technique.
Promising to be 100% fit for the new season, India's two-time Olympic medal-winning javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra on Friday (September 27, 2024) said a podium finish in the 2025 Tokyo World Championships is the next big target on his mind going forward.
The 26-year-old is back in the country after winding up his season with a second-place finish at the Diamond League finale in Brussels.
This was after he became the first Indian track-and-field athlete to claim successive Olympic medals by adding a silver in Paris to the momentous gold clinched in Tokyo.
"The season is over now. The biggest target for next year is the World Championship, and we will begin preparations for that now. The Olympics are always on our minds, but we have four years for that," Neeraj told PTI on the sidelines of a conference on 'Mission Olympics 2036' organised at the Sports University of Haryana.
The World Championship is scheduled to be held from September 13 to 21 next year.
Chopra battled an adductor muscle niggle throughout the year and it also affected his performance at both the Olympics and the DL finale, where he also competed with a fractured left hand.
He had spoken about consulting doctors at the end of the season to decide whether to go for a surgery to fix the problem.
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