From Tokyo Gold to Paris Silver: Neeraj Chopra Now India’s Most Decorated Olympian

Neeraj Chopra clinched a silver medal in the men’s javelin throw final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, his second medal at the Summer Games – which makes him India’s most successful Olympian.

Neeraj bagged silver with a distance of 89.45m as Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem broke the Olympic record with a 92.97m effort and won gold.

Abhinav Bindra was the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The star shooter, however, did not win any more medals in the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

A podium finish for Chopra in the Paris Olympics 2024 also makes Neeraj the third athlete after wrestler Sushil Kumar and shuttler PV Sindhu to win medals in back-to-back Olympics for India.

India’s most successful event at the Olympics though remains men’s field hockey. The Indian men’s hockey team clinched a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics to take their tally to a whopping 13 medals in the event.

After missing from the podium for an unbelievable 41 years before the jinx was broken at the 2020 Tokyo Games with a bronze medal, the Harmnapreet Singh-led side clinched a medal in back-to-back editions of the Summer games for the first time in 52 years.