Arshad Nadeem does not celebrate at competitions. Nadeem’s winning result is the best ever with the current javelin model.
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PARIS. Over the years, the entire cream of the modern javelin model has competed at the Stade de France. Before Thursday, however, no thrower had broken the 90-meter ghost limit in the Parisian cauldron.
It was after the Olympic final. Pakistani Arshad Nadeem hit his opponents in the throat in the second round of the final with a throw of 92.97 meters. Norwegian by Andreas Thorkildsen The Olympic record he threw 16 years ago in Beijing was improved by 2.40 meters.
Watch Nadeem’s winning throw in the video below:
Nadeem’s winning result is the best ever with the current javelin model. The previous record, 92.80, was held by the Czech Republic Jan Zelezny in names from the 2001 Edmonton WC final.
Zelezny, who watched the competition in the stands, updated Nadeem, for whom the competition was the first of the season. The recipe for the gold medal was the same as last year, when Nadeem threw the World Championship silver in Budapest in his second competition of the season.
Nadeem has now won two global race medals by entering the competition without a statistical result in the 80m. In the final in Paris, he crossed 90 meters twice – a feat that no one has done before.
– The guy always competes once or twice a year…However, the competition was great. I’m not happy because Kuba lost the bronze by four cents. But life is like this sometimes, Zelezny said and pointed to his coach, who finished fourth with a score of 88.50 to Jakub Vadlejch.
In the final, Zelezny, 58, also lost to Nadeem his field record of 89.90, which dates back to the summer of 1997.
Thursday night’s competition was one of the toughest in terms of level with the current javelin model. As for the top three, the 2001 World Cup final won by Zelezny remains above, where in addition to Zelezny’s 92.80 Aki Parviainen threw over 90 meters (91.31) and the bronze medalist Kostas Gatsioudiski 89.95. In that final, six men exceeded 85 meters, but in Paris the result of the sixth was 87.40.
According to Zelezny, the scale of the level is partly explained by the launch pad.
– If I could turn back the clock 20 or 30 years, I would have liked to throw on this platform. This is perfect: it’s fast and bouncy.
– It doesn’t suit Kuba completely, but I don’t blame today’s result.
The Finns are far from the top in the final. The only one who reached the last three rounds was Lassi Etelätalowho finished eighth with a score of 84.58. Oliver Helander was ninth (82.68) and Toni Keränen tenth (80.92).
See the Finns’ best throws in the final:
Nadeem became the first Pakistani to win an Olympic medal in athletics. The country has only won 11 medals in the history of the Olympics, eight of which are from field hockey.
Before Thursday, Pakistan’s only gold medals were in field hockey in 1960, 1968 and 1984.