Nadeem bags gold with an Olympic record-breaking toss of 92.97m to end Pakistan’s 32-year medal dryspell at the Games.
Published On 8 Aug 2024
Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem hasactually made history by clinching the nation’s first-ever track and field medal at the Olympics as he declared gold in the guys’s javelin last in Paris.
The 27-year-old dismissed protecting champ Neeraj Chopra of India and broke the Olympic record at the Stade de France on Thursday.
Nadeem tossed his arms up in event after breaking the Olympic record on his 2nd toss that landed at a sensational 92.97 metres – the finest in the world this year.
Chopra, conveniently ahead in qualifiers and preferred to win, looked off his finest kind. His finest of 89.45 metres was likewise his just legitimate effort as he fouled on his 5 other efforts.
Grenada’s Anderson Peters won bronze with 88.54 metres, a redemptive minute for the two-time world champ after he stoppedworking to make it to the last at the Tokyo Games 3 years earlier.
However, the night belonged to the simple male from Mian Channu, a little town in the eastern Punjab province, who came back from a knee injury early this year and made history for his nation inspiteof the shabby sports centers in the cricket-mad country.
Of Pakistan’s 8 previous Olympic medals, 6 came in guys’s hockey and one each in males’s fumbling and boxing.
Nadeem’s accomplishment likewise significant the veryfirst medal by Pakistan for 8 Olympics, with the last medal coming in 1992 as the males’s hockey group won bronze in Barcelona, Spain.
Men’s javelin toss last was BIG 🔥
🥇 92.97m OR Arshad Nadeem 🇵🇰
🥈 89.45m @Neeraj_chopra1 🇮🇳
🥉 88.54m Anderson Peters ?%AIRCONDITIONER🇩 #Paris2024 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/jPrVZZ6txl— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 8, 2024
Pakistan ‘so happy’ of Nadeem
Two months before the Olympics, Al Jazeera’s Abid Hussain invested a day with Arshad Nadeem as he ready for the Games.
Back then, in June, Nadeem informed us he felt “strong and inshape” for the world occasion, including he was “quite hopeful of a strong efficiency in Paris”.
The world record toss stays with Czechia’s Jan Zelezny, who reached a impressive 98.48, however the brand-new Olympic record, along with the end of a long wait for his nation, drew response from far and large from Nadeem’s compatriots.
Pakistan guys’s cricketer Fakhar Zaman stated the nation was “beaming with pride” in a post on X, while Nadeem’s coach and previous coach, Rasheed Ahmad Saqi, was overwhelmed with feelings after his ward won the gold medal.
“This is God’s wonder and a present for the whole country on our self-reliance day next week. I’m simply so proud of Arshad,” he informed Al Jazeera m