Share:It was a morning Pakistan Athletics will remember for long as Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem created history on Wednesday when he qualified for the final of javelin throw competition in the Tokyo Olympics. Arahad Nadeem is the first-ever Pakistani athlete to qualify for the final of any track and field event in the Olympics. He was placed in group B for the contest in which the athlete had to throw a minimum of 83.5m to directly qualify for the final. In his first attempt, the 24-year-old Pakistani athlete could reach the 78.5m mark but in the second attempt, Arshad created history with a throw of 85.16m that also placed him on top of group B. This was overall the third-best throw in the contest after India’s Neeraj Chopra (86.65m) and Germany’s Johannes Vetter (85.64m).

Source: The Nation August 04, 2021 03:33 UTC