Neeraj Chopra’s thrilling Olympic final increased Indians’ heart rate? What study showed | Trending

The Javelin event at the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024, in which India’s star athlete Neeraj Chopra clinched a silver, surely kept Indians and Pakanis at the edge of their seats and got hearts racing, quite literally. India’s Neeraj Chopra competes in the men’s javelin throw final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (AFP) Arshad Nadeem won gold for Pakan on Thursday night in the men’s Javelin, with a second throw of 92.97 metres that smashed the previous Olympic record. It was Pakan’s first medal since the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and their first gold medal since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Chopra, who won the gold the last time, took silver at 89.45 meters, a season best, and Anderson Peters of Grenada took the bronze at 88.54. A day after the thrilling event, Indian gadget and wearables brand Noise on Friday released data on the average heart rate of Noise users. Amit Khatri, co-founder of Noise, shared how the average heart rate of users was “notably high” during Thursday night’s Javelin event at different time stamps. The data is based on the average heart rate of three million users. “…during the event, the average heart rate of active Noisemakers was off the charts. This just shows how connected we were in spirit and pulse, rallying behind Neeraj,” Khatri wrote in a post on LinkedIn. Neeraj Chopra dominated the trends on the internet since Thursday evening with people posting their messeges for the 26-year-old track and field athlete from Haryana. (Also Read: Two countries, two mothers, one sentiment: ‘Neeraj Chopra is my son,’ says Arshad Nadeem’s mom) Neeraj Chopra became a superstar in India when he won India’s first ever gold medal in track and field three years ago. But there were no fans in Tokyo because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Indian diaspora made sure Chopra felt the full support of his nation of 1.4 billion this time. Students from Edinburgh and Austria. A couple from London. A cancer researcher based in Switzerland. Spectators draped in the orange, white and green Indian flags could be spotted all over stadium. There were Pakani fans, too. “It’s never been a sport that’s been very big and he’s captured the imagination of a lot of people to look at javelin again,” said Varun Mathur, who traveled from London on Thursday morning with his partner, Sujata Ravi, to see Chopra. At last year’s world championships, Nadeem took silver behind Chopra. “It’s going to be a good rivalry,” Mathur added.