AFP to send Premier javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem abroad for training
Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) is once again planning to send him abroad for training, in order to prepare the country’s premier javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem for next year’s Tokyo Olympics.
The athlete from Mian Chunu, Khanewal, Arshad stole the limelight when he wrote history for Pakistan by blasting his way into the Olympics with an 86.29m throw at the 13thSouth Asian Games in Nepal last year.
Arshad Nadeem, eyes at 90 meter plus throw at Tokoyo Olympics where he’ll meet Indian star thrower Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh besides the best throwers from around the world.
Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) is once again planning to send him abroad for training, in order to prepare the country’s premier javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem for next year’s Tokyo Olympics.
“Yes, we are again planning and very soon we will finalize where we are going to send him,” AFP Secretary General Mohammad Zafar told ‘The News’.
Finland and Kazakhstan were the two probable destinations for Arshad before the lockdown. And eventually Finland had been chosen.
“We will review the plans and will keep both destinations as options,” Zafar said.
There are good training prospects in Kazakhstan too,as their coach Viktor Aleksandrovich Yevsyukov is working hard with his players. He is a renowned coach and it will be great if we are able to have a deal with them.
23-year-old Arshad also won a bronze in the Asian Junior Championships in Vietnam. He never looked back as he claimed bronze in the 2017 Baku Islamic Games, bronze in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.
