Neeraj Chopra wins silver as Arshad Nadeem storms to gold with record throw

However, he couldn’t improve on that. In his attempts at trying to throw over 90m for the first time in his career, Neeraj ended up fouling all of his remaining attempts. Nadeem, meanwhile, threw 91.79m for his final attempt, which was also more than the previous Olympic record throw of 90.57m. He became the first athlete from Pakistan to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics while Neeraj became the third Indian after PV Sindhu and Sushil Kumar to win consecutive Games medals. Grenada’s Anderson Peters won bronze with a throw of 88.54m, making it the first time that there were no Europeans on the podium for men’s javelin throw at the Olympics.