The Pakistani spear star made Nadim’s guidance proud to win the gold medal in the Asian Athletics Championship final, where he ended a strong throw of 86.40 meters in his recent attempt.
Nadim, who holds the Olympic record after a brutal throw 92.97 meters at the Paris 2024 Olympics, gave less than the Asian Championship record, which is 86.72 meters.
His consistent performance throughout the event, which crowned this wonderful throw, ranked first on the platform.
Sachin Yadav of India won the silver medal with the best throw of 85.16 meters, while Yuta Sakiyama won a bronze in Japan after reaching a mark of 83.75 meters.
The highest Pakistani spear launcher began its campaign in the Asian Athletics Championship final with a bumpy with a confident of 75.64 meters.
His Pakistani teammate Yasser Sultan, the country’s second actor in the final match, began with 70.53 meters, before he improved significantly in his second attempt with 75.39 meters.
At the same time, he improved his mark with a second throw of 76.60 meters, while maintaining a fixed momentum.
In the third round, Yasser managed to improve a slight improvement and throw 75.50 meters. However, it was the guidance that really raised the tape, as he launched a huge throw of 85.57 meters-the best in competition so far. This strong efforts prompted him to top the group.
With this performance, Nadim’s guidance took over the initiative on the total leaders after the third attempt, outperformed his closest competitors and established himself as the candidate for the gold medal.
Yasser fourth attempt fell to 72.92 meters, while Nadim continued his consistency with another strong throw of 83.99 meters. At the end of the fourth round, Nadim remained firmly in the first place.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shaibaz Sharif also congratulated the athlete on the wonderful victory, as he continues to make the nation proud.
Nadim’s birthplace, Mian Chano, broke out in the celebrations with the spread of his victory news – which brought tears of joy and chants from the proud supporters. His family distributed sweets amid the sound of hitting on the drums, which represents the moment with the joy.
At the same time, on the field, the national song Del del Pakistan He repeated through the air while Nadim celebrated his victory by presenting a Prostrate (Prostration) in gratitude to God.
Javelin Ace got his place in the final match with a wonderful first ramia of 86.34 meters in Group A on Friday.
Nadim became the first Pakistani in more than 50 years to win a gold medal in the Asian Athletics Championship, which represents the first gold in Pakistan since 1973 when the country got the lead in the spear throwing and 800 meters – God Dada and Mohamed Younis won, respectively, during the event at Philippines.
It is also the first Olympic gold medal in Pakistan and the first medal in the country in athletics in summer games.
So far, he won four gold, one silver, and four bronze medals in various events, including Olympic Games, World Championships, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, Islamic Solidarity Games, South Asian championships, and Asian U20 championships.
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