Pathirage beats Chopra and Nadeem to win Commonwealth gold in javelin

Sri Lanka's Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage won the Commonwealth Games javelin gold, as Al Jazeera English reports, with India's Neeraj Chopra taking silver. Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem made an early exit from the competition. This marks Sri Lanka's first athletics gold at the Commonwealth Games.

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