Pakistani javelin thrower Nadeem brings home Olympic gold medal to rapturous reception

Record ID: 1834195

  • Title: Pakistani javelin thrower Nadeem brings home Olympic gold medal to rapturous reception
  • Date: 11th August 2024
  • Summary: LAHORE, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 11, 2024) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) PEOPLE CHANTING “ARSHAD” CROWD OF PEOPLE HOLDING UP MOBILE PHONES, TAKING PHOTOS OF NADEEM (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) FAN WHO CAME TO RECEIVE ARSHAD NADEEM, SOHAIL KHAN, SAYING: “We are here to receive our national hero. We have witnessed this delight after a very long time. We want to celebrate it to its fullest extent. W
  • Embargoed: 25th August 2024 02:58
  • Keywords: Olympics Pakistan athletics gold medal homecoming javelin return
  • Location: LAHORE, PAKISTAN
  • City: LAHORE, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Sport
  • Reuters ID: LVA002603310082024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Arshad Nadeem, who clinched Pakistan's first Olympic medal in athletics after winning gold in the men's javelin and knocking defending champion Neeraj Chopra of India into second place, received a hero's welcome when he returned to Pakistan early on Sunday (August 11).
    The Turkish Airlines plane carrying Nadeem received a water cannon salute after it landed at Lahore Airport at 1:25 a.m. local time (2025 GMT), as thousands of Pakistanis waited fervently to welcome the gold medallist.
    Nadeem's triumph on Thursday (August 8) in Paris is all the more impressive for a man born and raised in a mud brick house in an impoverished corner of rural Pakistan and forced as a young man to train in local wheat fields with homemade javelins.
    Nadeem, who compared his Olympic clash with Chopra to the two nations' legendary rivalry in cricket, has previously said it is challenging being a non-cricket athlete in Pakistan, where resources and facilities for his sport are scarce. But now his record-breaking 92.97 metre javelin throw in Paris has earned Pakistan its first Olympic medal since the 1992 Barcelona Games and its first gold medal since the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
    (Production: Naeem Abbas, Waseem Sattar, Shahabuddin Shahab, Travis Teo, Daniel Lim)
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