{"id":113632,"date":"2021-08-08T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113632"},"modified":"2021-08-08T13:57:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:57:35","slug":"poa-announces-pkr1million-sports-scholarship-for-arshad-nadeem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113632","title":{"rendered":"POA announces PKR1million, sports scholarship for Arshad Nadeem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/A.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Lahore: The Punjab Olympic Association (POA) has announced PKR1million and a sports scholarship for olympian Arshad Nadeem after he impressed the nation at Tokyo Olympics&#8217; Javelin Throw final event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arshad finished fifth in the final with a best throw of 84.62m. In view of his performance and dedication, President POA Muhammad Amir Jan announced a cash prize and a sports scholarship for the athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Amir termed Arshad as the ray of hope for young players and calling it a great achievement. Remember, he is the first Pakistani athlete in history to qualify for the final of any event at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Neeraj bagged the Gold with the best throw of the final covering the distance of 87.58m. Czech Republic\u2019s Jakub Vadlejch bagged silver with the second-best throw of 86.67m followed by his compatriot V\u00edt\u011bzslav Vesel\u00fd, winning Bronze with a throw of 85.44m.<\/p>\n<p>In the qualifying round, Arshad threw his best, covering the distance of 85.16m. But, in the final, he missed three throws out of six.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/olympian-arshad-nadeem-return-pakistan-august-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympian Arshad Nadeem to return Pakistan on August 12<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lahore: The Punjab Olympic Association (POA) has announced PKR1million and a sports scholarship for olympian Arshad Nadeem after he impressed the nation at Tokyo Olympics&#8217; <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113632\" title=\"POA announces PKR1million, sports scholarship for Arshad Nadeem\">[&#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\/113632"}],"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=113632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113634,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113632\/revisions\/113634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}