Defending Commonwealth Games champion Arshad Nadeem advanced to the men’s javelin throw final at the 2026 edition after securing seventh place in the qualifiers with a 78.63-metre throw.
No athlete managed to achieve the automatic qualifying standard of 84 metres during the three-throw qualification round. The top 12 competitors based on their best throws advanced to the final.
Sri Lanka’s Ramesh Tharanga topped the qualification standings with a throw of 82.84 metres, followed by Grenada’s Anderson Peters with 81.29 metres and South Africa’s Douw Smit with 80.64 metres.
England’s Ben East was among the top five with a throw of 80.38 metres, while India’s Neeraj Chopra finished fifth with 79.61 metres. Australia’s MacEntyre placed sixth with 78.91 metres, ahead of Arshad Nadeem in seventh.
Pakistan’s Yasir Sultan failed to qualify for the final after finishing 14th with a best throw of 74.36 metres.
Arshad heads into the final as the defending champion after making history at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, where he won gold with a 90.18-metre throw.
The effort set new national and Commonwealth Games records and made him the first South Asian athlete to surpass the 90-metre mark in the men’s javelin throw.
