The doctor who monitored Arshad Nadeem’s rehab after a calf surgery cleared the Olympic javelin champion on Thursday as “fully fit” and ready to create history at World Athletics Championships.
The 28-year-old underwent a surgical procedure in July 2025 for his right calf in Cambridge in England which forced him to miss the Diamond League meets.
Dr Surgeon Asad Abbas said he was fully satisfied with the rehab and is confident that Arshad will do well in the World Championship which begins in Tokyo from September 13.
“Arshad has fully recovered, and I have monitored his rehab and the progress. I am sure he will be right up there to compete with Neeraj and all others who will be lined up for the Javelin event,” Abbas told Telecomasia.net.
“I have seen him before so I am confident that he will be able to achieve better results than he did in Paris,” said Abbas.
The Neeraj-Nadeem rivalry will be the highlight of the Tokyo Championship and is billed as one of the top events of the event.
The rivalry between Chopra and Nadeem goes back to the last World Championship in Budapest, Hungry where the Indian athlete won the gold with a throw of 88.17. Arshad won silver with a mere 0.35-meter difference.
Neeraj Chopra is also an Asian Athletics Championships (2017), Asian Games (2018) and Commonwealth Games (2018) champion.
Nadeem rose to fame when he won the Commonwealth Games medal in 2022 but failed to reach the podium in the Tokyo Olympics a year earlier. Neeraj won the Tokyo gold medal with a throw of 87.58.
Arshad rose to fame with a record-breaking throw of 92.97m and win gold medal in the Paris Games. The medal ended Pakistan’s 32-year wait of an Olympic gold. They last won a gold in the field hockey event in the Los Angeles Olympics.
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