Islamabad
\nArshad Nadeem, the first-ever individual athlete to win a gold medal in Pakistan\u2019s history, was confident of victory, asserting it was \u201cmy day\u201d as he carved history at the Paris Olympics 2024 Thursday night.
\nThe 27-year-old javelin thrower, in an exclusive conversation with Geo News, said: \u201cIt was my day. I could have thrown it at a greater distance.\u201d
\nThe athlete, revealing the reason behind his win, said he was \u201cin the rhythm\u201d and \u201chopeful\u201d to win the gold medal with how far he had launched the javelin.
\nNadeem expressed his wish to celebrate August 14 with the medal.
\nThe javelin ace \u2014 who registered a new Olympic record after fetching a 92.97m of the throw in the second round, enough for him to win the competition as others remained behind \u2014 made history at the mega sporting event and also brought home the first Olympic gold after 40 long years in any discipline.
\nPakistan had earlier won gold medals only in hockey, the last being in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
\nHis throw also set the Olympic record which was previously with Norway\u2019s Andreas Thorkildsen who registered at the 2008 Beijing Games.
\nFollowing Nadeem\u2019s historic win, Pakistan won an Olympic medal after the gap of 32 years. The last time Pakistan won an medal was in 1992 when the national hockey team clinched bronze by defeating the Netherlands 4-3 at the Barcelona Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad Arshad Nadeem, the first-ever individual athlete to win a gold medal in Pakistan\u2019s history, was confident of victory, asserting it was \u201cmy day\u201d as he carved history at the Paris Olympics 2024 Thursday night. The 27-year-old javelin thrower, in an exclusive conversation with Geo News, said: \u201cIt was my day. I could have thrown …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68659,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68629\/revisions\/68659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}