BUDAPEST: National athlete and Olympian Arshad Nadeem won silver medal in the final of the men’s javelin throw at World Athletics Championship.
The 26-year-old athlete finished second while India’s Neeraj Chopra won gold. Arshad Nadeem made his best throw of 87.82m in third round.
The Pakistani athlete made a record-breaking performance at the South Asian Games in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nadeem won the men’s gold on day 7 with a new event record distance of 86.29 metres.
Arshad still made history in the Hungarian capital, winning Pakistan’s first medal at the biennial track and field spectacle with his second-placed finish and showing he can end Pakistan’s long Olympic medal drought at next year’s Games in Paris.
His achievement becomes even more remarkable considering the fact that this was his first international appearance in a year.
Arshad tried his best to reel in Chopra — India’s first gold medalist in history at the Worlds — and his fourth attempt hitting the 87.15-metre mark.
He fouled his attempt in the fifth round, where the Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch snatched third place from Germany’s Julian Weber (85.79m) with a throw of 86.67 metres.
The Pakistan-India battle for gold went to the final round where Arshad tried to raise the stakes but could only reach 81.86m. Silver secured, he prostrated with Pakistan finally having a medal to its name at athletics’ marquee event.
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