Paris, 8 August 2024 (TDI): Pakistan’s javelin ace Arshad Nadeem will compete in the final round of the Paris Olympics 2024 Men’s Javelin Throw competition today (Thursday), as he gears up to win his first Olympic medal for Pakistan in 32 years.
The final round of the javelin event will start at 11:25 pm Pakistan Standard Time.
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Pakistan has only 10 Olympic medals since 1948. The country has not won a single medal since 1992 when the national hockey team secured a bronze in Barcelona.
However, Arshad Nadeem, a nine-time international medalist and four-time gold medalist who came 5th at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, is Pakistan’s best shot at a medal in the ongoing tournament.
The star athlete won silver at the World Championships in 2023 and gold at the Commonwealth Games in 2022 with a massive 90.18m distance throw.
During the qualification round on Tuesday, Arshad threw his first throw of 86.59 metre, well beyond the 84-metre qualifying mark, to advance to the medal round. His throw was the third farthest followed by India’s Neeraj Chopra (89 metres) and Grenada’s Anderson Peters (88 metres).
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Nadeem, a poor boy from the small town of Khanewal, is one of 9 children of a daily wage labourer who showed great versatility as an athlete from a young age while dabbling in all kinds of sports at school.
