Ashish Yadav: From training at a pond to winning a World U-20 Javelin silver

6 min readUpdated: Aug 8, 2026 02:25 PM IST When he took up the sport two years ago, Ashish Yadav trained with a wooden javelin in a dry pond with patches of quicksand near his village, Mawaiya, Mirzapur. It was more out of compulsion than […]