Huge setback for double Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra as Indian javelin ace parts five-year association with…
Under Klaus Bartonietz, Neeraj Chopra won gold at Tokyo Olympics, Paris Games silver and also became world champion and Diamond League champion, besides becoming Asian Games gold medallist.
New Delhi: Klaus Bartonietz will now no longer be seen anymore with Neeraj Chopra because the Indian javelin superstar’s longtime coach has determined to spend more time with family, thus ending a five-year-long association with the Olympic champion. The 75-year-old German cited age and family commitments to part ways with Neeraj.
The 26-year-old Chopra has been working with Bartonietz, who is a biomechanics expert but doubled up as Chopra’s coach, since 2019. The German first came on board as a biomechanical expert and took over as Chopra’s coach after Uwe Hohn fell out with the AFI and the Sports Authority of India.
“He (Bartonietz) is 75 and he now desires to be with his family and does now no longer want too a lot commute also,” an official of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) told PTI. “It be now no longer that Neeraj desires to end the association, it is miles Bartonietz who has expressed his inability to continue as his (Neeraj’s) coach.”
Less than Bartonietz, Chopra won Tokyo Olympics gold, Paris Games silver, turned into world champion and Diamond League champion, besides becoming Asian Games gold medallist.
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