{"id":111387,"date":"2021-08-04T05:26:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=111387"},"modified":"2021-08-04T05:56:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:56:47","slug":"tokyo-olympics-pakistans-javelin-thrower-arshad-nadeem-qualifies-for-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=111387","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Pakistan\u2019s javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem qualifies for final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Arshad-Nadeem.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Tokyo: Pakistan&#8217;s Arshad Nadeem has made history on Wednesday morning as he qualified for the final of the Javelin Throw competition at Tokyo Olympics 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Arshad is the first-ever Pakistani athlete to qualify for the final of any track and field event in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Arshad Nadeem made it to the final of men&#8217;s javelin throw with a throw of 85.16m, well beyond the qualification mark of 83.50m. His first attempt was 78.50m.<\/p>\n<p>This was overall third-best throw in the contest after India\u2019s Neeraj Chopra (86.65m) and Germany\u2019s Johannes Vetter (85.64m).<\/p>\n<p>This is also Arshad\u2019s third-best throw in a competition. Earlier this year, Arshad threw the javelin to a distance of 86.39m for his personal best and a national record during the Imam Reza championship in Iran. Earlier in 2019, he threw 86.29 at South Asian Games in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>He topped the Group B with a throw of 85.16m, Vadlejch Jakub of Czech Republic was second while Weber Julian of Germany grabbed third position to qualify for the final<\/p>\n<p>The final of the men&#8217;s javelin throw competition at the Tokyo Olympics is scheduled for August 7.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/pray-win-olympics-medal-javelin-thrower-arshad-nadeem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Pray for me to win Olympics medal\u2019 Javelin Thrower Arshad Nadeem<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tokyo: Pakistan&#8217;s Arshad Nadeem has made history on Wednesday morning as he qualified for the final of the Javelin Throw competition at Tokyo Olympics 2020. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=111387\" title=\"Tokyo Olympics: Pakistan\u2019s javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem qualifies for final\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111389,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111387\/revisions\/111389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}