Haider Ali Medals at Stade de France as Arshad Nadeem Sets Olympic Javelin Record
At the iconic Stade de France, during the Discus Throw F37 event, Haider Ali secured the medal with an impressive final throw, which soared to a distance of 52.54 meters.
Uzbekistan’s Tolibboy Yuldashev won the gold with his 57.28-meter throw, which was achieved in his sixth and final throw.
Meanwhile, Canada’s Jesse Zesseu secured the silver medal with a throw of 53.24m.
Notably, Haider Ali clinched the gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020.
For the unversed, before the Paralympics, Pakistan’s star athlete Arshad Nadeem ended the country’s 32-year medal drought in the Olympics after bagging a gold medal with the longest throw of 92.97 meters in the javelin final of the Paris Olympics 2024.
Arshad set the Olympic record with a 92.97m throw, going past Norway’s Andreas Thorkildsen, who threw farthest at 90.57 during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
His throw was enough for him to seal the Gold medal, the first-ever individual gold medal in the Olympics for Pakistan.
India’s Neeraj Chopra secured the silver medal with an 89.45m throw in his second attempt while all of his other attempts were deemed as “No Throw”.
It is worth mentioning here that Arshad Nadeem was Pakistan’s last hope for a medal in the Paris Olympics as all of their remaining athletes had been knocked out of the medal race.
Pakistan last won a medal in the Olympics during the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.
