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"Gift to entire nation...": Arshad Nadeem dedicates Olympic gold to Pakistan on Independence Day

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Paris [France], August 9 (ANI): Javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem dedicated his gold medal at the Paris Olympics to Pakistan and said that it was a gift to his nation on the occasion of Independence Day.

Nadeem won gold with a throw of 92.97 meters, setting a new Olympic record and surpassing Denmark's Andreas Thorkildsen's mark from Beijing 2008. Grenada's Anderson Peters secured bronze with a throw of 88.54 meters.

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