Neeraj Chopra gained the boys’s javelin on Saturday for India’s first-ever Olympic athletics gold.
Chopra, 23, managed a profitable better of 87.58 metres to go one higher than India’s earlier finest: two silver medals gained within the 200m and now-defunct 200m hurdles on the 1900 Paris Games by British-Indian Norman Pritchard.
The Czech Republic crammed out the rostrum at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium, Jakub Vadlejch taking silver with 86.67m and Vitezslav Vesely claiming bronze with 85.44m.