Pakistan javelin ace Arshad Nadeem achieved the historic feat by winning a gold medal for Pakistan in the final quest of the Paris Olympics 2024 besides breaking the previous Olympic record with a 92.97-metre massive throw.
Arshad 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 athletics, and first gold in any discipline in the last 40 years.
Pakistan won an Olympic medal after a gap of 32 years. The last time Pakistan won a medal was 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.
