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Athletics Central North East: Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra qualifies for Tokyo Olympics 2020

Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

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Athletics Central North East: Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra qualifies for Tokyo Olympics 2020
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Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

The athlete returned to action after recovering from an elbow injury and threw 87.86m at the Athletics Central North East meeting in South Africa.

The Olympic cut has been made after the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) confirmed with their South African counterparts about the event being recognised as an 'international meet’, IANS reported. 

Neeraj is India's hopeful Olympic medalist. His last major international competition was the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games last August. He had won gold with a national record of 88.06m.

After facing the injury, Neeraj was forced to miss competitive action for the most part of 2019.

He was expected to participate in the National Open Athletics Championship late last year, but the AFI decided to allow Neeraj more time to get competition ready.

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