Kishore Jena and Amoj Jacob, who excelled in the Budapest World Championships last month, kept up their good form to earn gold medals at the Indian Grand Prix 5 2023 athletics on Sunday in Chandigarh.
Javelin sensation Jena's best attempt, a throw of 82.53m, came on his first try. His following throws read 80.74m, 81.56m and 78.39m.
The 28-year-old athlete spoiled on the fifth attempt and finished with 78.98m. All of Jena's permitted throws were finer than the second-placed Vikas Yadav, who accomplished a distance of 72.88m.
Jena was thrust into the spotlight with a personal best of 84.77m in Budapest last month. On a night when, for the first time in the history of Indian track and field, three countrymen competed together in the final of a single event at the World Athletics Championships, the Odisha athlete put on a show to remember, hurling the spear to a distance of 84.77m, a personal best.