Para Worlds: Technique reset, Ajeet hopes for gold in javelin

He is fresh from a training stint with stars Vetter and Max Dehning in Germany

- Shantanu Srivastava

It’s been around ten days since Ajeet Singh Yadav returned from a six-month training stint in Germany. He is yet to get a feel of the freshly laid track at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium that will host the World Para Athletics Championships, but the 32-year-old javelin thrower is eager to put to practice his learnings from the high-performance centre in Offenburg.

The elite centre in the southwestern German city is among the most sought after for javelin throwers in Europe and routinely hosts the top names. Double Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra trained there in 2017, Yadav emphasises, while former world champion Johannes Vetter uses it as his training base.

“I have worked a lot on my technique, particularly my block. Earlier, my left leg (blocking leg) would collapse on impact, but I have worked on it. I hope all those sessions in Germany will bear fruit,” Yadav, silver medallist at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, said.