Nadeem bags gold with an Olympic record-breaking toss of 92.97 m to end Pakistan’s 32-year medal dry spell at the Games.
Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem has actually made history by clinching the nation’s first-ever track and field medal at the Olympics as he declared gold in the males’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 spectacular 92.97 metres– the very best on the planet this year.
Chopra, easily ahead in qualifiers and preferred to win, looked off his finest kind. His finest of 89.45 metres was likewise his only 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 stopped working to make it to the last at the Tokyo Games 3 years earlier.
The night belonged to the modest guy 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 regardless of the shabby sports centers in the cricket-mad country.
Of Pakistan’s 8 previous Olympic medals, 6 was available in guys’s hockey and one each in guys’s fumbling and boxing.
Nadeem’s accomplishment likewise marked the very first medal by Pakistan for 8 Olympics, with the last medal can be found in 1992 as the guys’s hockey group won bronze in Barcelona, Spain.
Guy’s javelin toss last was BIG
92.97 m OR Arshad Nadeem
89.45 m @Neeraj_chopra1
88.54 m Anderson Peters #Paris 2024 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/jPrVZZ6txl— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 8, 2024
Pakistan ‘so happy’ of Nadeem
2 months before the Olympics, Al Jazeera’s Abid Hussain invested a day with Arshad Nadeem as he got ready for the Games.
At that time, in June, Nadeem informed us he felt “strong and healthy” for the world occasion, including he was “rather enthusiastic of a strong efficiency in Paris”.
The world record toss stays with Czechia’s Jan Zelezny, who reached an impressive 98.48, however the brand-new Olympic record, in addition to completion of a long haul for his nation, drew response from everywhere 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 so happy with Arshad,” he informed Al Jazeera minutes after the gold medal was validated.
Saqi declares he was positive that Nadeem would win a medal and had actually anticipated it would be a gold.
“I had this belief that he will break some record. I was particular he will break his own record or Olympic record which’s what he did.”
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif likewise praised Arshad Nadeem on making history for the nation.
He published on X: “You’ve made the entire country proud.”
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