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- Nadeem, 27, registered a new Olympic record with his 92.97-meter throw in second round of javelin final
- He was also the only athlete to surpass the 90-meter mark twice, with his final throw being 91.79 meters
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani javelin ace Arshad Nadeem, who created history by ending the country’s 32-year Olympics medal drought, on Friday received his gold medal for winning men’s javelin final with a massive throw of 92.97 meters.
The winning podium was set in the Champions Park near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, with Pakistan’s flag hoisted high and the national anthem playing in the background.
Pakistan’s Ambassador to France Asim Ahmed also attended the ceremony where Nadeem received his gold medal, according to the Pakistani embassy in France.
“Arshad is the first athlete from Pakistan to win an individual gold medal at Olympics in forty years,” the embassy said on X.
Nadeem, 27, registered the new Olympic record with his 92.97-meter throw in the second round. He broke the record of Norway’s Andreas Thorkildsen who set it at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Nadeem was also the only athlete to surpass the 90-meter mark twice, with his final throw being 91.79 meters.
India’s Neeraj Chopra finished second with his season-best throw of 89.45 meters, while two-time world champion Grenadian Anderson Peterson received the bronze medal with his fourth-round throw of 88.54m.