Paris Olympics 2024: Neeraj Chopra has won the silver medal in the javelin throw event at the Paris Olympics. After this, he has become the first player to win two consecutive Olympic medals. Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem has won the gold medal. If we look at the history of javelin throw, this is not a competition of a few decades or years, but it has a very special and big history. So let us know today about the history of this competition and who threw the javelin first.
From weapon of war to the Olympics
The history of javelin throw is very old, javelin throw for the first time 708 It was included as a sport in the ancient Olympic Games held in Greece in 1000 B.C., this race, discus throw, Long jump And became a part of pentathlon event along with wrestling, You will be surprised to know that when the javelin throw competition took place for the first time, the javelin was made of olive wood, However, the condition of Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic Games, has deteriorated over the centuries following numerous battles and natural disasters, Then 394 The games were officially abolished around 300 AD by the Roman emperor Theodosius I after he outlawed pagan ceremonies and practices., Along with this, javelin throw was also stopped here.,
Centuries later, the Scandinavians 1700 The game was revived in the late 1980s, Let us tell you that Finland and Sweden have won two different titles in javelin throw,There used to be competition in different events, In one of them, the spear had to be thrown at the target and in the other, the spear had to be thrown at the farthest distance, However a few decades later the longer javelin throw became more popular, The first contestant to win the competition was Eric Lemming,
When did you join the Olympics?,
Then when the other throw events discus and shot put were added 1896 was included in the first modern Olympic Games 1908 Javelin throw was included in the Olympics for the first time in the third edition held in London in 1977,
Who won the first javelin throw competition,
When javelin throw was held for the first time in the Olympics, Sweden’s Eric Lemming maintained his supremacy in it too, He competed in the standard javelin throw event with,won gold medal in freestyle javelin throw with, He beat Lemming in the standard throw 54.482 He created a new world and Olympic record by throwing the javelin for a distance of 100 meters, Neeraj Chopra brought this honor to the country for the first time in the javelin throw competition in India,
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