{"id":2394,"date":"2025-08-22T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:23:27","slug":"javelin-star-yasir-sultan-clinches-bronze-at-asian-throwing-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/javelin-star-yasir-sultan-clinches-bronze-at-asian-throwing-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Javelin star Yasir Sultan clinches bronze at Asian Throwing Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"medium-insert-images ui-sortable\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\"><figcaption class=\"\" contenteditable=\"false\" spellcheck=\"false\" aria-label=\"To enrich screen reader interactions, please activate Accessibility in Grammarly extension settings\">Pakistan\u2019s javelin thrower Yasir Sultan in action during the Asian Throwing Championship in South Korea on August 22, 2025. \u2014 ScreengrabviaInstagram\/yasir__sultan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s javelin thrower Muhammad Yasir Sultan claimed the bronze medal at the Asian Throwing Championships on Friday with a season-best throw of 77.43 metres.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old athlete delivered his best effort on the sixth and final attempt, surpassing his previous season-best of 76.07m, which he had set at the Asian Athletics Championships earlier in May.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Pathirage Rumesh Tharanga took gold with a powerful throw of 82.05 metres \u2014 the only throw over the 80-metre mark during the event. Japan\u2019s Gen Naganuma earned the silver medal with a best attempt of 78.60 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Yasir was Pakistan\u2019s sole participant at the event. He was accompanied by national coach Fayyaz Bukhari during the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pakistan\u2019s star javelin sensation and Olympic gold medallist Arshad Nadeem did not feature in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Arshad is currently in the rehabilitation phase following surgery and is yet to regain full fitness. He underwent successful surgery on his calf muscles last month in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>He will also not be participating in the upcoming Poland and Switzerland Diamond League.<\/p>\n<p>Arshad captured global attention last year when he shattered the Olympic javelin record with a remarkable throw of 92.97 metres at the Paris Olympics and clinched the coveted gold medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s javelin thrower Yasir Sultan in action during the Asian Throwing Championship in South Korea on August 22, 2025. \u2014 ScreengrabviaInstagram\/yasir__sultan Pakistan&#8217;s javelin thrower Muhammad Yasir Sultan claimed the bronze medal at the Asian Throwing Championships on Friday with a season-best throw of 77.43 metres. The 27-year-old athlete delivered his best effort on the sixth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}