Arshad Nadeem Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Arshad Nadeem

• Arshad Nadeem is a Pakistani observe and area athlete who competes within the javelin throw.

• Growing up in Mian Channu, he would usually head to the bottom to look at Pakistan’s in style rural sport Nezabazi (tent pegging) by which horsemen present their daredevilry. On his father’s insistence, who was obsessed with Nezabazi, Nadeem took up the game and have become a daily on the city’s sprawling grounds, exposing him to completely different outside sports activities.

• An exceptionally versatile athlete since his early college days, he dabbled in varied sports activities like cricket, badminton, soccer, and athletics. However, his ardour for cricket transcended different sports activities and led him to play it at district-level tape-ball tournaments.

• When he was in seventh grade, he caught the eye of Rasheed Ahmad Saqi throughout an athletics competitors, who then took him below his apprenticeship. Saqi had a fame for creating sportspeople in Pakistan.

• In an interview, Nadeem’s father talked about his humble family and stated,
  

  I used to earn 400-500 per day on contract labour at the moment and it was powerful to handle issues for all the kids. But I made positive that Nadeem would get milk and ghee to grow to be a properly constructed youth. I didn’t need him to work like me and I all the time wished him to steer a great life, which he has ensured along with his performances.”

• However, after a few years, Arshad had to choose between cricket and athletics. Inspired by his two elder brothers, each of whom had been athletes on the divisional degree, Nadeem selected athletics after a radical dialogue along with his coach. In an interview, whereas sharing the dilemma of leaving cricket, he stated,
  

  Leaving cricket behind was not straightforward, nevertheless it turned out to be among the finest selections of my life. My father was a labourer, we didn’t have the required sources or contacts to make it professional in cricket. My college’s PT [physical training] lecturers Ajmal and Zafar taken care of me properly and helped me alter to the change.”

• Initially, he pursued shot-put, discus throw, and javelin throw in athletics. Later, he dropped discus throw and shot-put, focusing solely on the javelin throw after being influenced by his father, Muhammad Ashraf.

• In 2015, he began his journey as a javelin thrower.

• Winning Gold medals in subsequent Punjab Youth Festivals and an inter-board meet roped in presents from the main home athletics groups in Pakistan, together with Army, Air Force, and Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA).

• When the 2015 National Championships had been simply across the nook, Nadeem appeared of their trials, the place he managed a throw of 56 m. Although the scouts on responsibility dismissed him saying that he would by no means be a 60 m+ athlete, his potential was recognised by Syed Fiaz Hussain Bokhari, who inducted him into the camp for the championships. Within a month, when Arshad secured a gold medal within the inter-department championship with a throw of 69m, Bokhari, grew to become his everlasting coach.

• Thereafter, he began representing Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA) in home competitions.

• On his final attempt on the 2015 National Championships, he broke the 70 m barrier, the gap extensively thought to be a qualification mark for worldwide choice then. At 18, Arshad grew to become the nationwide champion, reserving his place within the South Asian Games (SAG) 2016 squad. The victory additionally secured him a everlasting job a WAPDA.

• At SAG 2016, Guwahati, he made acquaintance along with his Indian counterpart Neeraj Chopra, who was then an 18-year-old upcoming athlete like Arshad himself.

• At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, Arshad broke his personal nationwide report within the qualifying spherical however injured himself within the course of. While recalling the match with a tinge of unhappiness in an interview, he stated,
  

  I used to be in good kind. I used to be throwing 80m plus in coaching. In qualifying, I used to be forward of Neeraj and the Indian teaching employees seemed scared. But I wasn’t capable of carry out to my most within the closing because of the harm.”

• He was the only real consultant of Pakistan on the 2019 World Athletics Championships (Doha). He missed out on qualification to the ultimate however broke the nationwide report with a throw of 81.52 m.

• At the 2019 National Games of Pakistan, he defended his nationwide champion title with a report of 83.65m.

• On 7 December 2019, Arshad created historical past on the South Asian Games in Kathmandu by smashing the nationwide report with a throw of 86.29m, securing a gold medal and surpassing Chopra’s video games report set in 2016 by 4 meters. Additionally, he secured direct qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo) and he grew to become Pakistan’s solely observe and area athlete to qualify immediately for the Olympics.

• For Tokyo 2020, the Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) despatched Arshad on a two-month coaching interval to Nanjing, China. However, the journey was lower quick because of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

• His father acknowledged that Arshad was not supplied even a great coaching floor facility previous to Tokyo Olympics 2020. He additionally revealed that Arshad underwent coaching in his personal home’s courtyards and streets and didn’t obtain any monetary help from the Government of Pakistan after being certified for the Olympics. He added that the bills of sending Arshad to Multan, Faisalabad, and Lahore for apply had been fully borne by him.

• On 4 August 2021, he certified for the boys’s javelin throw occasion closing of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, changing into the first-ever Pakistani to qualify for the ultimate of any observe and area occasion within the historical past of the Olympics. His throw of 84.62 m secured him fifth rank on the Olympics; in the meantime, Neeraj Chopra gained a gold medal on the Tokyo Olympics 2020 with a mark of 87.58 m and have become the primary Indian to win a gold medal in observe and area.

• After the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Neeraj Chopra, throughout an interview, acknowledged that his javelin was being utilized by Arshad Nadeem earlier than the ultimate. The assertion was blown out of proportion as many believed that Nadeem was tampering with Neeraj’s javelin. Later, Neeraj took to Twitter and clarified that athletes usually use private javelins of one another, interesting to everybody to not promote pointless propaganda.

• In July 2022, he additionally grew to become the primary ever Pakistani to qualify for the ultimate of any occasion on the World Athletics Championships, Eugene, Oregon. Despite carrying an elbow harm, he managed a efficiency of 86.16 m, his season’s finest throw, securing the fifth place.

• His epic win got here on 7 August 2022 when he grew to become the primary Pakistani to win a gold medal on the Commonwealth Games within the males’s javelin throw occasion, changing into the primary South Asian to breach the 90m mark.

What an excellent efficiency from Arshad Nadeem!

He earns Pakistan their first observe and area Gold after 60 years 🥇🥇, setting priority with a brand new Games report.

Congratulations @NOCPakistan 👏🏾#CommonwealthGames2022 | #B2022 pic.twitter.com/6H5YlKxeLg

— Commonwealth Sport (@thecgf) August 7, 2022

• In an interview, his father, Muhammad Ashraf, talked about that Arshad Nadeem usually finds inspiration for his personal athletic efficiency by watching Neeraj Chopra’s movies on his telephone.