India’s star Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Saturday scripted history by winning the country’s first Olympic gold in Athletics. In doing so, he became only the second Indian to win an individual gold in the Olympics, out-performing the field by quite a distance. He produced a second-round throw of 87.58m in the finals to stun the athletics world.

Czech Republic throwers Jakub Vadlejch (86.67m) and Vitezslav Vesely (85.44m) took the silver and bronze respectively.

Chopra came into the final as a medal contender after topping the qualification round on Wednesday with a stunning first round throw of 86.59m.

“It feels unbelievable. It is the first time India has won gold in athletics, so I feel very good. We have just one gold here in other sports,” the 23-year-old said.