Asian Games 2023 / Neeraj Chopra stood up to India's hopes - won second Asian gold, silver also in India's bag

Asian Games 2023: India got two medals in the javelin throw final match of the Asian Games 2023 being played in China. In this event where India's golden boy Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal. India's Kishore Kumar Jena was successful in winning silver. Let us tell you that this was Neeraj's second consecutive Asian Games gold medal. Kishore also captured silver by achieving his personal best. Due to the medals of these two players, India's medal count in the Asian Games has now reached 81.

Neeraj is in the lead since the first round

Neeraj Chopra was in the lead right from the first round of the javelin throw final of the Asian Games. In this event, Neeraj's first throw did not count due to technical problems. After which Neerjan took this throw again and covered the distance of 82.38. In the same event, India's Kishore Kumar Jena threw his first throw of 81.26 meters. He stood second in the first round. Apart from this, Neeraj managed to throw 84.49 meters in the second round. Which was much ahead of his first throw. If we talk about Jena, she could throw 79.76 meters.

There was competition between Kishore and Neeraj from the third round itself.

India's Kishore Kumar Jena overtook Neeraj Chopra in the third round of the javelin throw final. Kishore took the lead in the final with a throw of 86.77. With this, Kishore left Neeraj behind and claimed the gold medal. Let us tell you that Neeraj's third throw did not count due to foul. However, after this, Neeraj left Kishore behind in the next round of throwing. This throw of Neeraj was 88.88. Due to which he reached number one again. Kishore also did not lag far behind in this round and threw a throw of 87.54 meters, measuring a better distance than his previous throw. However Neeraj still managed to move ahead. After this, in the next round Neeraj threw a throw of 80.80 and Kishore could not get his count done due to foul.