Pakistan’s Steratleet and Olympic gold medal winner Arshad Nadeem will participate in the last round of the men’s spear throw on the World Athletics Championships 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.
This decisive event will contain 12 top athletes, including World No. 1 Julian Weber from Germany and the Indian Neeraj Chopra. The last round starts on Thursday at 3:23 pm (PST) and all eyes will be on Nadeem while striving for victory.
According to the starting list, each athlete gets six throws to compete for the gold medal.
Weber takes the first throw, followed by Grenada’s Anderson Peters. Arshad takes his first throw third in the order, while Chopra throws immediately after Nadeem (Fourth Worp).
Nadeem qualified with a throw of 85.28m in his third and final attempt, after earlier efforts of 76.99m and 74.17m. From his group, Peters (85.96m) and Julius Yego (89.53m) of Kenya, also progressed, while Curtis Thompson of the US, which opened with 77.97 m, booked his place with a later throw of 84.72m.
Chopra, a double Olympic medal winner, needed only one throw to make progress. He knew the automatic qualification marking of 84.50 m with a first certificate competition of 84.85m at the National Stadium in Tokyo, which set the tone in group A.
The Indian Sachin Yadav was closely missing the direct qualification with a strong 83.67m, finished sixth in group A, but later qualified for the final based on the results of group B.
During the last world championships in Budapest in 2023, Chopra wrote history by becoming the first world champion of India in athletics with a throw of 88.17m, while Nadeem claimed silver with 87.82 m.
The tables turned around at the Olympic Games in Paris, where Nadeem triumphed with gold, so Chopra settled with silver. Nadeem, the 28-year-old athlete, had fascinated the nation by establishing a new Olympic record with a throw of 92.97 million and led Pakistan to his first track and field gold in decades.
