Arshad Nadeem, Pakistan’s last alive athlete, will participate in the competition tomorrow

• Javelin ace Arshad Nadeem will participate in the competition tomorrow.
• Arshad was placed in Group B to participate in the javelin competition.
• His event will start at 6:35 am Pakistan time.

Karachi: Pakistan’s last athlete to survive the Tokyo Olympics will participate in the group stage of the javelin competition tomorrow.

The 24-year-old Arshad cast 86.29 million meters at the South Asian Games in Kathmandu. He was Pakistan’s first track and field athlete to directly qualify for the Olympic Games.

Arshad is scheduled to participate in the javelin competition in Group B. His competition will start at 6:35 am Pakistan time.

He is tied with Zheng Chaoqun, ranked third in the world, and Anderson Peters, ranked fifth in the world.

Arshad’s current world ranking is 23. However, his best result of the season is also his personal best — 86.38 points — one of the ten best games of the season. In April of this year, the medal he won in Iran placed him 7th among the best throwers of the season.

A total of 32 contestants were divided into two groups with 16 people in each group. According to the eligibility criteria, athletes with a throw distance of at least 83.50m or at least 12 athletes with the best performance will advance to the final.

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Looking at his performance and progress over the years, it can be confidently said that Arshad is one of the favorites to advance to the finals. If it is his day, he can create a rare glory for the country.

Arshad is considered one of the best javelin throwers in South Asia. He won the bronze medal at the South Asian Games in Guwahati in 2016. He became the focus of attention for the first time. He threw the javelin 78.33 million meters, which was his first national record at the time.

Since then, his performance in the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games has continued to improve, where he also won a bronze medal for Pakistan, the Arshad javelin of 80.75 million meters, which is another new national record of his.

In the Doha World Championships, Arshad further improved, achieving 81.52 points, and then further improved in the 2019 National Games, throwing 83.65 million meters. At the 2019 South Asian Games, he voted 8.29 million, which also won him a ticket to Tokyo.

Earlier this year in Iran, he voted 86.38 million.

In an interview before he left, Arshad had set his sights on the 90m mark, a feat that could make him on the podium. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, German athlete Thomas Bahrer won the gold medal with a score of 9030 meters. In 2008, Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway set an Olympic record of 90.58 for the javelin.