Indian athlete Neeraj Chopra has been ranked 2nd in the 2021 World Athletics Men’s Javelin Throw Rankings. Neeraj was ranked 129th in the overall men’s athletics rankings.
*Neeraj Chopra wins gold at Tokyo 2020 Olympics
*Germany’s Johannes Vetter (World No. 1) continues to top the men’s javelin rankings.
*The world ranking for athletics is provided by the sport’s governing body ‘World Athletics’.
Neeraj Chopra:
Neeraj Chopra was born in Panipat, Haryana. His gold medal was India’s first medal at a track & field event.
*He threw the javelin to a distance of 87.58m to win the gold medal.
*Overall, this is only India’s 2nd individual gold medal at the Olympics. Abhinav Bindra won India’s first individual gold medal in the 10m air rifle category at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.