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Monumental! Beyond believable! - Sports world congratulates Neeraj Chopra on historic gold at Tokyo Olympics

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Talking Tokyo: Neeraj Chopra enters the history books (1:55)

Former Olympian Aparna Popat on Neeraj Chopra's historic gold medal (1:55)

Current and former Indian sportspersons heaped praise on Neeraj Chopra after he created history by becoming the first Indian to win an athletics gold medal at the Olympics by winning the men's javelin throw at Tokyo 2020 on Saturday. Chopra is only the second Indian ever (other than Abhinav Bindra) to win an individual gold, and only the first Indian since independence to win an athletics medal at the Olympics.

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Here's how some of India's prominent athletes reacted.

Abhinav Bindra

Sachin Tendulkar

Yogeshwar Dutt

Gagan Narang

Gautam Gambhir

PV Sindhu

PT Usha

Mithali Raj

Mirabai Chanu

Saina Nehwal

Virender Sehwag

Jeev Milha Singh

Sakshi Malik

Harbhajan Singh

Sharath Kamal

Anil Kumble

Viren Rasquinha

VVS Laxman

Heena Sidhu

Irfan Pathan

Rupinder Pal Singh

Dinesh Karthik

Deepa Malik

Yuvraj Singh

G Sathiyan

Suresh Raina