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Neeraj Chopra’s hopes of successful a second successive gold medal so as to add to his first from Tokyo didn’t materialise and the Indian needed to be happy with a silver medal within the males’s javelin throw last within the Paris Olympics on Thursday evening. Chopra, who got here into the ultimate because the favorite with an excellent effort of 89.34 metres within the qualifying, threw the javelin to 89.45, his second-best ever effort a transparent enchancment on the 87.58 that bagged him the gold medal in Tokyo. However that didn’t show sufficient for the reigning World Champion and Diamond League last winner as Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, his good pal on the circuit, upstaged him by setting the Olympic File to win the gold medal.
Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem broke the Olympic File within the males’s javelin throw last with a monster heave of 92.97 metres to upstage the Indian Tokyo Olympic Video games gold medallist. Nadeem had completed fourth in Tokyo and had struggled with accidents and monetary crunch within the interim interval,
However on Thursday, Nadeem got here up with a sensational effort to win the gold.
That big throw of 92.97 put Nadeem on the high of the standings and he remained in that place managing throws of 88,72, 79.40m, and 84.87m after which ended the competitors with a throw of 91.79 metres, the second time any person crossed the 90m mark twice within the Olympics, as he turned Pakistan’s first gold medallist in particular person competitions within the Olympics.
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Anderson Peters of Granada took the bronze medal with a greatest throw of 88.54 metres.
Chopra began the ultimate with a foul on his first try, Nadeem too fouled his first throw whereas Trinidad’s Keshorn Walcott took the lead with a throw of 86.16m whereas Anderson Peter was second at 84.70.
The Indian star didn’t look convincing in any of his throws besides on the second flip, which was his lone authorized throw on the evening,
Chopra nonetheless made historical past for India, changing into the second male Indian and third general to win a medal in back-to-back medals within the Olympics after wrestler Sushil Kumar who received a bronze and silver within the 2008 and 2012 Video games. PV Sindhu is the opposite Indian to win back-to-back medals – silver in 2016 and Tokyo,
Neeraj’s silver medal was India’s fifth medal in Paris one silver and 4 bronze medals. The Indian has been scuffling with accidents for the final couple of years and it appears the results are nonetheless there. The javelin throw occasion within the Paris Olympics was so robust that Julien Webber of Germany, the silver medallist at Tokyo, needed to be happy with a sixth place.
However the expectations from him have been so excessive that the silver medal felt disappointing, however Neeraj couldn’t do something on Thursday as Nadeem was too good for everybody on Thursday.
However Nadeem nearly killed the competitors on his second flip, unleashing a monster throw of 92.97 leaving everybody within the stadium surprised. With that throw, Nadeem broke the prevailing Olympic File of Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway, who threw 90.57 in Beijing 2008. It’s also the sixth-best throw within the all-time listing.
Chopra maintained the stress on his pal and opponent with a throw of 89.45 in his second flip and moved to the second spot. The 26-year-old from Haryana had three foul throws within the subsequent 4 turns, ending the Paris Olympics with a silver medal.
Nadeem turned the primary Asian to breach the 90m mark in javelin throw on the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham. Chopra has by no means crossed the 90m mark. Nadeem received the primary particular person gold medal for Pakistan, who’ve until now received solely three gold medals within the Olympics — all in hockey.
Solely two Pakistanis have received particular person medals — each bronze medals bagged by Muhammad Bashir in Males’s freestyle welterweight wrestling in 1960 and boxer Hussain Shah in Males’s middleweight in 1988 in Seoul.
The lads’s hockey group received Pakistan’s final medal within the Olympics, a bronze in Barcelona in 1992. Nadeem is ready to finish a 32-year drought for an Olympic medal for Pakistan. The nation received its final gold medal in hockey in 1984 in Los Angeles.
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