Neeraj Chopra splits with coach Jan Zelezny

New Delhi: India’s double Olympics and World Championships javelin medallist Neeraj Chopra announced on Saturday that he had parted ways with coach Jan Zelezny, having started to train under the Czech great after the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Chopra, 28, who won the 2021 Tokyo Olympics gold medal to become India’s first individual Olympic champion in athletics, is currently recovering from a back issue that hampered his medal chances at last year’s World Championships in Tokyo, where he finished eighth.

“Working with Jan opened my eyes to so many new ideas. The way he thinks about technique, rhythm, and movement is incredible, and I learned a lot from every single session we had together,” PTI quoted Chopra as saying in a media statement.