World Athletics Championships Starts in Tokyo Today | World Athletics Championship from today in Tokyo: Neeraj Chopra will be seen throwing javelin on September 17, India sent a squad of 19 players

Neeraj Chopra is the only Indian to win gold and silver medals at the Javalin Throw event of the Olympics.

World Athletics Championship 2025 is starting from today in Tokyo city of Japan. The tournament will be played from 13 to 21 September. India’s star Javalin thrower Neeraj Chopra will be seen in the qualification round on 17 September, he has reached Japan. For the tournament, India has sent a squad of 19 players for different events Japan.

Neeraj won gold in 2023 For the first time in history, 4 players from India will participate in Men’s Javilde Throw event. Apart from Neeraj, Sachin Yadav, Yashveer Singh and Rohit Yadav also qualified for the tournament. Double Olympic medalist Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal in the Budapest World Championship in 2023, now he will land to defend his title.

The young sprinter Animesh Kujur is also expected to win the medal in the 19 players of India. He is the first player in India to qualify at the Men’s 200m Sprint event in the World Championship. He will also be seen racing on 17 September.

Neeraj Chopra reached Japan Neeraj Chopra has reached Japan to participate in the World Athletics Championship. He reached Tokyo on 11 September, he also started practice from 12 September. The biggest challenge in the event in front of Neeraj will be Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan, who won the gold medal in the Paris Olympics and pushed Neeraj to second place. Neeraj has won gold and silver medals at the Olympics.

Neeraj Chopra reached Tokyo on 11 September.

India’s relay team did not qualify The previous World Championship took place in Hungary, where India sent 28 athletes. However, this time the squad was shortened due to not being able to qualify for the relay team. India’s squad has 14 men and 5 women’s athletes. Among them, medal expectations are the highest from Neeraj.

Prize money of Rs 75 crore Prize money of Rs 75 crore is at stake at the World Athletics Championship. Apart from this, athletes, who set world records in any event of the tournament, will get 88.30 lakh rupees ($ 1 lakh). See the details of prize money below …

Individual event Gold: 61.80 lakh rupees (70 thousand dollars) Silver: 30.90 lakh rupees (35 thousand dollars) Bronze: 19.42 lakh rupees (22 thousand dollars) Fourth place: 14.12 lakh rupees (16 thousand dollars) Fifth place: 9.71 lakh rupees (11 thousand dollars) Sixth place: 6.18 lakh rupees (7 thousand dollars) Seventh place: 5.29 lakh rupees (6 thousand dollars) Eighth place: 4.41 lakh rupees (5 thousand dollars)

Relay team

India’s team for Tokyo World Athletics Championship

Mains: Neeraj Chopra, Sachin Yadav, Yashveer Singh and Rohit Yadav (Javelin Throw), Murali Srishankar (Long Jump), Gulveer Singh (5000 and 10000 meters), Praveen Chitrawal and Abdullah Abubakar (Triple Jump), Sarvesh Anil Kusare (High Jump), Animesh Kujur (200 meters), Tejas Shirse (110 meter Hardals), Sarva Shirase (110 meter Hardals) Walk), Rambabu and Sandeep Kumar (35 km race walk).

Women’s: Parul Chaudhary and Ankita Dhyani (3000m Stepalchase), Annu Rani (Javelin Throw), Priyanka Goswami (35 km race walk), Pooja (800 and 1500 meters).

What is the World Athletics Championship? The World Athletics Championship is the world’s largest athletics competition after the Olympics. World athletics conducts it every 2 years. It consists of events like sprint, race walk, high jump, long jump and javelin throw.

In 1983, the championship was held in the city of Helsinki, Finland for the first time. 2000 plus athletes from more than 200 countries participate in it. Which consists of 49 different events of Mans and Women’s category. Japan has hosted the Athletics Championship for the third time.