{"id":126767,"date":"2026-08-08T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/from-training-in-dry-ponds-with-wooden-javelin-to-following-chopras-trail-rise-of-ashish\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:36:09","slug":"from-training-in-dry-ponds-with-wooden-javelin-to-following-chopras-trail-rise-of-ashish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/from-training-in-dry-ponds-with-wooden-javelin-to-following-chopras-trail-rise-of-ashish\/","title":{"rendered":"From training in dry ponds with wooden javelin to following Chopra&#8217;s trail: Rise of Ashish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashish secured the second spot in the men&#8217;s javelin final with a best effort of 74.09 metres, which came in his third attempt. His performance earned India a podium finish at the global junior event. It is the first time India have won a medal in javelin throw at the Junior World Championships since Neeraj Chopra&#8217;s monster 86.48m showing in 2016.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashish secured the second spot in the men&#8217;s javelin final with a best effort of 74.09 metres, which came in his third attempt. His performance earned India a podium finish at the global junior event. It is the first time India have won a medal in javelin throw at the Junior World Championships since Neeraj&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/from-training-in-dry-ponds-with-wooden-javelin-to-following-chopras-trail-rise-of-ashish\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From training in dry ponds with wooden javelin to following Chopra&#8217;s trail: Rise of Ashish<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":126768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}