Indian athletics : Two-time Olympic medall Makarov Sergey Aleksandrovich appointed as Indian foreign javelin throw coach | Sport-others News
Two time Olympic bronze medall 51-year-old Makarov Sergey Aleksandrovich will be foreign javelin coach for Indian javelin throwers as per a statement released Athletics Federation of India.
Aleksandrovich, who has a career best throw of 92.61m, comes from an athletics family with his father Aleksandr Fyodorovich Makarov having won the silver medal in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
“The Russian javelin throw expert arrived earlier this week and will be based at Patiala’s National Institute of Sports in Punjab. Aleksandrovich’s vast experience as an athlete and coach will surely give fillip to development of javelin throw in the country,” Chief National Coach Radhakrishnan Nair said in the AFI statement.
The 51-year-old Aleksandrovich will be based at Patiala and will oversee the preparations of Indian javelin throwers at the national camp as well interact with Indian coaches for the three-year-cycle as per AFI. While Indian double Olympic medall Neeraj Chopra has been training under javelin legend Jan Železný, who currently holds the javelin world record, since November last year, Aleksandrovich will be helping athletes like Annu Rani as well youngsters in the Indian camp. In the past, previous world record holder with the previous version of javelin before it was redesigned, Uwe John had worked with the Indian team for three years before he quit in 2021.
Aleksandrovich, who has also competed against Jan Železný in his career, had become the world champion in 2003 at the age of 30. The Russian also crossed the 90m mark four times in his career with his best throw of 92.61m coming at Sheffield in 2002. At the Sydney Olympics, Aleksandrovich had won the bronze medal with a throw of 88.67 m and won his second Olympic bronze medal in Athens with a throw of 84.84m.
