No money to buy a javelin, today a Olympic champion..!!

Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem clinched the gold medal in the javelin final with a throw of 92.97m in his first attempt to become the longest thrower in the history of the paris 2024 Olympics. The men's javelin final at the paris 2024 olympic games was held early morning today. In this, 12 players including Neeraj Chopra, Arshad Nadeem, and Anderson Peters participated. Each player takes the first attempt in turn. In this, indian player Neeraj Chopra slipped and fell down and was bowled. Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem set a new record as the longest thrower in this Olympic series with a throw of 92.97m in his first attempt.
He also became the 6th player to throw more than 90 meters. In the 2nd attempt, Neeraj Chopra threw a distance of 89.45m and became 2nd in the points table. Andersen Peters from grenada retained his third position with a throw of 88.54m. After that, there was no change till the end of 5 rounds. Finally, Arshad Nadeem won the gold medal. Neeraj Chopra won the silver medal. Neeraj Chopra had won the gold medal in the tokyo olympics with a throw of 87.58. Peters eventually won the bronze medal. Arshad Nadeem won the gold medal in this series and pakistan won its first medal in the Olympic series. Apart from that, Arshad has set the record of becoming the first player to win a medal for his country.Prior to this, pakistan won the bronze medal for the first time in hockey at the 1992 Olympics. So far, pakistan has accumulated 10 medals in total in the Olympic series alone. These include 3 gold, 3 silver, and 4 bronze medals. Overall, pakistan has only 2 individual medals in wrestling and boxing. Mohammad Basheer won the bronze medal in 1960. Notably, Hussain Shah won bronze in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
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Sowmiya Sriram

09/08/2024 10:34 AM