With his last throw, Sachin Yadav also boosted his Personal Best by a massive distance.
Sachin Yadav won silver medal in men’s javelin throw at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025 with a best throw of 85.16m. He registered throws of 79.65m, 74.05m, 72.07m, 77.37m in his first four throws, respectively. Sachin finally crossed the 80m mark with a throw of 83.03 in his fifth attempt. In his final attempt, he threw 85.16m to finish second on the podium.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem clinched the gold medal with a best throw of 86.40m to set a new Asian Lead. He breached his own best of 86.34m that he had set during the men’s javelin throw qualification round a day earlier.
Arshad started with two below-par throws of 75.64m and 76.80m. His next three throws were 85.57m, 83.99m, and 83.44m before registering a gold-medal winning throw of 86.40m. The Olympic record holder missed a new Competition Record by 0.72m.
Yuta Sakiyama from Japan bagged the bronze medal with a personal best of 83.75m. He managed to breach the 80m mark on his final attempt to win a medal. Yash Vir Singh, on the other hand, finished fifth with a personal best of 82.57m, surpassing his previous best of 82.13m.
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Yash began the event with two foul throws and followed it up with a 77.24m throw on his third attempt. He registered twin throws of 80.23m in his next two attempts before his best of 82.57m.
Asian Athletics Championships 2025: men’s javelin throw final results
- Arshad Nadeem (Pakistan) – 86.40 m
- Sachin Yadav (India) – 85.16 m
- Yuta Sakiyama (Japan) – 83.75 m
- Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage (Sri Lanka) – 83.27 m
- Yash Vir Singh (India) – 82.57 m
- Hu Haoran (China) – 80.93 m
- Sumedha Jagath Ranasinghe Ranasinghe Mudiyanselage (Sri Lanka) – 79.81 m
- Muhammad Yasir (Pakistan) – 75.39 m
- Ryohei Arai (Japan) – 74.21 m
- Abdulrahman Alazemi (Kuwait) – 73.87 m
- Ali Fathi Ganji (Iran) – 72.11 m
- Taepoong Nam (South Korea) – 69.42 m
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