Pakistan\u2019s Arshad Nadeem qualified for the men\u2019s javelin throw final at the 2026 Commonwealth Games after finishing seventh in the qualification round with a best throw of 78.63 metres. No athlete managed to achieve the automatic qualifying standard of 84 metres during the three-throw qualification round. The top 12 competitors based on their best throws advanced to the final. Sri Lanka\u2019s Ramesh Tharanga topped the qualification standings with a throw of 82.84 metres, followed by Grenada\u2019s Anderson Peters with 81.29 metres and South Africa\u2019s Douw Smit with 80.64 metres. England\u2019s Ben East was among the top five with a throw of 80.38 metres, while India\u2019s Neeraj Chopra finished fifth with 79.61 metres. Australia\u2019s MacEntyre placed sixth with 78.91 metres, ahead of Arshad Nadeem in seventh. Pakistan\u2019s Yasir Sultan failed to qualify for the final after finishing 14th with a best throw of 74.36 metres. Arshad heads into the final as the defending champion after making history at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, where he won gold with a 90.18-metre throw. The effort set new national and Commonwealth Games records and made him the first South Asian athlete to surpass the 90-metre mark in the men’s javelin throw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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