Watch: Hundreds Gather In Arshad Nadeem's Hometown In Pakistan To Celebrate 92.97m Olympics Javelin Gold

Dozens of villagers gathered in front of the modest home of Pakistan athlete Arshad Nadeem to watch the hulking javelin thrower take part in the Olympic Games final late Thursday. The event was broadcast live by a digital projector onto a screen hanging on the back of a truck in his farming village near the small city of Mian Channu in Punjab province. As the javelin soared through the sky in Paris to a new Olympic record and a gold medal for Nadeem, thousands of kilometres (miles) away the cheers of the villagers rang into the night.

Watch: Celebrations in Arshad Nadeem's home town as he wins Olympics javelin gold

Gold Medalist ARSHAD NADEEM'S village! Streets filled with Family, friends, and fans unite to honour their hero!

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"He did a great throw and created history. We are proud of him," said Nadeem's 35-year-old brother, Muhammad Azeem.

Men danced to the celebratory beat of a drum and others clapped and chanted slogans as it became clear he had won.

The women, meanwhile, sat crowded around a small TV inside Nadeem's home.

"He had promised me that he would play well, go abroad, win a medal and make Pakistan proud," his mother Raziah Parveen said straightforwardly.

Despite practising with rickety equipment and with little access to the gyms and training grounds his international competitors have, Nadeem had given Pakistan its first Olympic gold medal in 32 years.

First drawn to cricket

"He belongs to Mian Channu. He belongs to a small village and raised the Pakistani national flag at the international level," said Rasheed Ahmed, Nadeem's former coach who first spotted his talent.

The son of a retired construction