Games-Barber wins javelin gold after overcoming COVID
BIRMINGHAM, England : Australian Kelsey-Lee Barber won Commonwealth Games javelin gold on Sunday, after defending her world title last month and then overcoming a bout of COVID-19.
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Commonwealth Games: Javelin Thrower Annu Rani Wins Bronze
Annu Rani became the first Indian female javelin thrower to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games on the penultimate day on Sunday. Rani sent the spear to a distance of 60m in her fourth attempt to win a bronze medal for the country.
Annu Rani wins bronze, becomes first Indian female javelin thrower to win medal in CWG
Commonwealth Games on the penultimate day on Sunday. Rani sent the spear to a distance of 60m in her fourth attempt to finish third.
CWG 2022: We are not rivals, we are part of javelin family, says Arshad Nadeem on friendship with Neeraj Chopra
Pakistan javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem says he will miss competing against India's Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra at the Commonwealth Games here as they are part of 'one' family. Neeraj won a historic silver at the World Championships last month with a throw of 88.13m as Arshad finished fifth after becoming the first Pakistani to qualify for the finals. The Indian pulled out of the CWG due to a groin strain while Arshad, who continues to nurse an elbow injury, is expected to be on the podium with Grenada's Anderson Peters, the favourite for gold. Peters won the gold at recent Worlds. "Neeraj bhai is my brother. I miss him here. May God give him the best of health and I get to compete with him soon," Arshad told PTI.
CWG 2022: Women's javelin world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber tests positive for Covid-19
Barber, who claimed her second world crown last week at Eugene, Oregon, in the United States, tested positive at the Australian team camp ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this week. But with the women's javelin final not until August 7, she could still compete.
Injured Indian javelin star Chopra 'hurt' at missing Games
NEW DELHI: India's Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra said that he was "hurt" at not being able to defend his Commonwealth Games title after pulling out with injury.
CWG 2022: Neeraj Chopra and javelin's throw of the dice
For a nation always clamouring for more, Neeraj's injury is untimely reminder that rare success is sustained only by pushing the limits of enduranceAs a nation, we are so enamoured with personality cults, both inside and outside the arena of sport, that we sometimes forget Neeraj Chopra stands alone in his field. He is a toweringly successful sporting figure of considerable dramatic appeal, acceptable across the spectrum. He also stands distinctly apart, the flag-bearer of a mystifying art who defies the straitjackets we pigeonhole our public figures into. In a country obsessed with the divine, this Olympic gold-winning javelin thrower stands a beacon of human potential. Adulation, however, is not a cure for fallibility.
India's javelin champion Chopra pulls out of Commonwealth Games due to injury
MUMBAI: India's Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra will not defend his Commonwealth Games javelin title in Birmingham due to injury, the country's Olympic association (IOA) said on Tuesday (Jul 26).