Pakistan’s Umeer Kayani won the gold medal in the javelin men’s event of the 16th Special Olympics World Games Athletics.
Umair won the gold medal with a throw of 38.81 meters. This is Pakistan’s fourth gold medal in these competitions.
Pakistan’s Umima Iftikhar won the silver medal in the women’s javelin event with a throw of 10.47 meters.
25-year-old national athlete Umeer Kayani from Wah Kent has named Commonwealth Games gold medalist Arshad Nadeem as his idol and expressed his desire to earn a name like him.
Umeer’s head coach Irfan Anwar says that Umeer has been very skilled in shot put and javelin throwing since his early days and his preparation for the World Games has been going on for the last two years keeping this in mind. Hopefully, he will continue his streak of good performances in the shot put as well.
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