On Thursday (8th of August), Arshad Nadeem won the gold medal in the javelin throw at the Olympic Games by defeating the defending champion Neeraj Chopra from India. This is the first time that Pakistan has won a gold medal in the Olympic Games since 1984.
After breaking the Olympic record in his second throw with 92.97 meters, Nadeem ranked sixth in the history list.
After Chopra’s last attempt failed, Nadeem knelt down and kissed the ground; The Pakistani athlete finished fifth at the Tokyo Olympics but won silver medal at last year’s World.
Chopra’s throw traveled 89.45 meters and he won the silver medal; Chopra, who has struggled with injuries, said: “I am not very happy with my performance today and my technique and shower was not that good.”
Andersen Peters of Grenada with a throw of 88.54m won a bronze medal; Prime Minister of India after Chopra won silver on X Channel read:Chopra many time and again his wonderful Showed and India is happy that he is with one another success comes back to the Olympics.
