Done for this season, Neeraj Chopra is already ready with his target for next year — a podium finish at the 2025 Tokyo World Championships.

The two-time Olympic medal-winning javelin star also wants to be 100 per cent fit for the new season after being plagued by injuries in 2024.

The 26-year-old is back in the country after winding up his season with a second-place finish at the Diamond League finale in Brussels.

This was after he became the first Indian track-and-field athlete to claim successive Olympic medals by adding a silver in Paris to the momentous gold clinched in Tokyo.

“The season is over now. The biggest target for next year is the World Championship, and we will begin preparations for that now. The Olympics are always on our minds, but we have four years for that,” Neeraj said at an event here.

The World Championship is scheduled to be held from September 13 to 21 next year.

Neeraj battled an adductor muscle niggle throughout the year and it also affected his performance at the Olympics and the Diamond League finale, where he also competed with a fractured left hand.

He had spoken about consulting doctors at the end of the season to decide whether to go for a surgery to fix the problem.

Neeraj, on Friday, was seen wearing a plaster on his fractured left hand. Asked about his fitness, Neeraj played down concerns and also stated that he would look to improve his technique. The Haryana-lad is trained by renowned German biomechanics expert Klaus Bartonietz.

“It was an injury-plagued year, but the injury is fine now, I will be 100 per cent fit for the new season,” he asserted.

“Technical issues are also there but we will work on them. I will look to improve my technique. I do like to train in India, but when competitions start, I prefer to train abroad,” he said.

Reflecting on India’s Olympic performance, which yielded six medals but no gold this time, Neeraj pointed out that the country could have got more as reflected by the half-a-dozen fourth-place finishes.

“There were a lot of fourth positions. (But) this time, we had a very good performance in the Paralympics and won several medals.

“In the coming years, we expect strong performances in both the Olympics and the Paralympics,” Neeraj said.

On Friday, Neeraj also met sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya. “Met our Olympic champion @Neeraj_chopra1 in New Delhi today. Sent him best wishes for the future,” Mandaviya tweeted.

The javelin ace has been working hard to hit the 90m mark for the last few years but hasn’t managed so far despite coming close multiple times. In the Paris Olympics, his silver-winning throw was 89.45m and he was bested by Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, who broke the Games record with a 92.97m effort.

Though Neeraj didn’t say anything about it, one assumes that breaching the 90m mark will also be among his top targets in the coming year.