{"id":111337,"date":"2024-08-09T16:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/who-were-two-pakistani-athletes-to-win-individual-olympic-medals-before-arshad-nadeem\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T16:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:54:35","slug":"who-were-two-pakistani-athletes-to-win-individual-olympic-medals-before-arshad-nadeem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/who-were-two-pakistani-athletes-to-win-individual-olympic-medals-before-arshad-nadeem\/","title":{"rendered":"Who were two Pakistani athletes to win individual Olympic medals before Arshad Nadeem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/08\/indiatv-2024-08-09t202915-1723215558.jpg?resize=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Who were two Pakistani athletes to win individual Olympic medals before Arshad Nadeem?\" title=\"Who were two Pakistani athletes to win individual Olympic medals before Arshad Nadeem?\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : GETTY<\/span> Arshad Nadeem at the Paris Olympics 2024 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">Arshad Nadeem entered the history books after winning the first-ever Olympic gold for Pakistan on Thursday, August 9. Nadeem stunned the sporting world with a record throw at the men&#8217;s javelin event at the Paris Olympics 2024 and ended Pakistan&#8217;s long wait for a medal in the Summer Games.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>Nadeem produced Pakistan&#8217;s first individual Olympic gold and first medal since 1992 to claim eternal glory. Pakistan has won three gold and three silver medals in the men&#8217;s field hockey events in the Olympics but never made the headlines in the individual sports.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Pakistan had won just two individual medals before Nadeem&#8217;s heroics in the 2024 Paris Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The legendary wrestler\u00a0Muhammad Bashir, born in 1935, was the first Pakistani athlete to win an individual medal. Bashir created history after winning a bronze in the men&#8217;s freestyle\u00a0welterweight category at the 1960 Olympic Games held in Rome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bashir won his first five matches to enter the finals but lost two back-to-back bouts to finish third among 23 contenders. He also won three Commonwealth gold medals (1958 Cardiff,\u00a01962 Perth and\u00a01966 Kingston), a gold in the 1996 Asian Games in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir died aged 66 in March 2001 and\u00a0remains Pakistan&#8217;s most successful wrestler of all time. Pakistan also won their first-ever gold in men&#8217;s field hockey in 1960 after they beat India 1-0 in the final. However, the 1960 Rome Games was\u00a0the only edition where Pakistan won two or more medals in their Olympic history.\u00a0    <\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s second individual Olympic medal came in 1988, 28 years after Bashir&#8217;s bronze in Rome and 36 years before Arshad Nadeem&#8217;s gold in Paris 2024. The iconic boxer Hussain Shah won a bronze medal in the men&#8217;s\u00a0middleweight category at the 1988 Seoul Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hussain became the first and only Pakistan boxer to claim an Olympic medal. Her received a bye in his first round and then won three consecutive matches to enter the semi-finals where he lost 1-4 to Canada&#8217;s\u00a0Egerton Marcus and won a bronze.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nadeem ended Pakistan&#8217;s wait for the third individual medal and first-ever gold which will encourage young athletes to improve Pakistan&#8217;s stature in future Olympic Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/other\/hussain-shah-muhammad-bashir-pakistan-athletes-to-win-individual-olympic-medals-before-arshad-nadeem-2024-08-09-946116\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : GETTY Arshad Nadeem at the Paris Olympics 2024 Arshad Nadeem entered the history books after winning the first-ever Olympic gold for Pakistan on Thursday, August 9. Nadeem stunned the sporting world with a record throw at the men&#8217;s javelin event at the Paris Olympics 2024 and ended Pakistan&#8217;s long wait for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/08\/indiatv-2024-08-09t202915-1723215558.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[27663,85077,91559,6622,91555,23193,35580,91556,14365,444,91561,91560,91557,10000,91558,4973,34222,1460],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111339,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111337\/revisions\/111339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}