the tricolour went up to the beats of the indian national anthem for the very first time in the athletics competition at the carrara stadium it was all thanks to 20yearold neeraj chopra who announced his arrival in style by bagging the gold medal in the mens javelin throw at the commonwealth games on saturdaychopra the world u20 record holder from 2016 decimated his rivals with a monster first heave that measured 8550m he dashed down around 25m and unleashed the javelin which went on its parabolic curve and kept going beyond the reach of his competitorshis nearest rival australian hamish peacock was nearly four metres behind as he took the silver with an effort that measured 8259m on his fourth attempt the bronze went to grenadas anderson peters who did a best of 8220m these were the only two competitors who could have troubled the indian as the rest of the field failed to get past the 80m markneeraj fouled his second attempt but came up with three amazing throw on his third fourth and fifth throws which measured 8478m 8647m and 8348mi was expecting to do my personal best which came at the world u20 championship in bygdoszcz hungary but i missed it by one centimetre i went all out for the record on my last chance and due to that i got slightly unbalanced and fell over neeraj told reporters after taking a victory lap around the packed stadium the tinge of disappointment soon gave way to optimism but i have lot of competitions ahead and ill try to do better in those meets he addedthe youngster who had crashed out in the preliminary round of world athletics said he felt motivated by the achievement of kashinath nayak who won a bronze in 2010 games i feel happy and proud i wanted to win a gold at the 2010 games in delhi kashinath nayak had won the bronze but today i almost won with my first throw and so im very happy i thank all my supporters and well wishers he saidabout the competition chopra said though world champion julius yego missed the final the field had quality the competition was good but i had set myself a target and i had to live up to that i was trying to get the crowd behind me at the top of my run up and it worked to an extent he saidno limit to how far he can throw coach uwe hohnneeraj chopras coach the legendary german uwe hohn the only athlete to throw the javelin to 100m or more said there was no limit to how far the indian could throw there is no limit on him on how much he can throw neeraj has not reached that level but i hope in two years time he can compete on the same level and also win some medals we can do a little better in two years time to help him to improve and definitely he will