Pakistan javelin ace Arshad Nadeem ended the country’s gold medal pursuit at the Paris Olympics 2024 with a historic victory alongside breaking the previous Olympic record with a mammoth 92.97-metre throw.
Arshad Nadeem launched a throw of 92.97 meters in his second attempt which was enough for him to secure the gold medal.
This throw also set the Olympic record which was previously with Norway’s Andreas Thorkildsen who registered at the 2008 Beijing Games.
This is the first-ever individual gold medal in the Olympics for Pakistan, maiden in athletics and first gold in any discipline in the last 40 years.
Pakistan won an Olympic medal after the gap of 32 years. The last time Pakistan won medal in 1992 when the national hockey team clinched bronze by defeating the Netherlands 4-3 at the Barcelona Olympics.
Meanwhile, India’s Neeraj Chopra, who was defending his gold, made a throw of 89.45 and bagged the silver medal. Grenada’s Anderson Peters fetched the bronze medal with a throw of 88.54m.
Remember, six of the seven athletes the country sent were disqualified from their respective events.
