Less than 24 hours after striking gold in the javelin final at the Asian Athletics Championship, javelin phenom Arshad Nadeem on Sunday thanked the nation for its support and prayers, dedicating the win to Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Arshad returned to international competition and won a gold medal with a throw of 86.40 metres in the men\u2019s javelin final in Gumi, South Korea. India\u2019s Sachin Yadav took silver with an 85.16m and Japan\u2019s Yuta Sakiyama took home bronze with an 83.75m throw. Both athletes threw a personal best.<\/p>\n
In a post on Instagram today, Nadeem said: \u201cIt is because of all your prayers that Allah made me successful in the finals, and gave respect to Pakistan, when I won gold at the Asian Athletics Championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a result of your prayers, and the hard work of me and my coach, Salman Iqbal Butt,\u201d he said in a short video message as he adorned a green and white Pakistan jersey.<\/p>\n
He noted that he would be arriving at Lahore International Airport at 10:20pm tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives me great happiness that this was my first competition since the Paris Olympics, and Allah delivered victory to Pakistan,\u201d the 28-year-old said.<\/p>\n
Nadeem, who holds the Olympic record after throwing a monstrous 92.97m at Paris 2024, narrowly missed breaking the championship record of 86.72m.<\/p>\n
The triumph also marks the first time Pakistan has won gold at the Asian Athletics Championship in 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Less than 24 hours after striking gold in the javelin final at the Asian Athletics Championship, javelin phenom Arshad Nadeem on Sunday thanked the nation for its support and prayers, dedicating the win to Pakistan. Yesterday, Arshad returned to international competition and won a gold medal with a throw of 86.40 metres in the men\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9661,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions\/9661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}