Pakistan bag 88 medals: Special Olympics

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KARACHI, July 1: Pakistan ended up with a staggering total of 88 medals in the Special Olympics held in Dublin (Ireland). Pakistan contingent which returned on Tuesday from Dublin was accorded a warm welcome on arrival at Quaid-i-Azam International Airport.

Pakistan’s 60-member contingent comprising 34 boys and 26 girls got 40 gold, 28 silver and 20 bronze medal picked from across Pakistan took part in eight disciplines including basketball, football, aquatics, tennis, athletics, badminton, table tennis and bocce. The bocce contingent, raked in, the most medals a total of 21, with Umair Farooqi winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively in three separate events. Bocce, a relevantly new discipline in the special Olympics was devised to include lower ability athletes.

In the athletics category, the team also brought in a sizable number of medals, most of them gold. Twelve year-old Reema Akram from Jhang won three golds.

In aquatics, badminton and tennis both male and female athletes fared well, but the girls scored over the boys, with Batool Zohair in Swimming, Hafiza Bano in Badminton and Aisha Nadeem in Tennis each bringing in gold, two each in the case of Batool Zohari and Hafiza Bano.

The highlights of the event were the basketball matches with which the competition ended In the final the girls walked away with the silver, but the boys took the gold.

It had been a hard fight to get the finals, and it took particular grit to beat the home team, Ireland in the final.

The stars of the basketball show were Naila Ashraf Sharmeen Akber and Nazia Majeed in the girls team, and Awais Ashraf and Tauheed Aziz in the boys.-APP

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good going and congratz to all :slight_smile:

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wow. 88 medals (40 gold, 28 silver and 20 bronze). Which country won the most medals and was on the top of the medal list?

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i think australia

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:jhanda:

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:jhanda:

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mashallah… keep it up boys and girls :jhanda:

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Great going :hula: keep it up :k:

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wow…:k:

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I dont know what this means but we hardly win any medals in 'normal olympics' and here we are grabbing 88 medals in special olympics.

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^^ It’s Special Olympics, lussi bhai. :smiley: More good news for Pakistan. :hula:

Pak shuttlers grab gold, silver, bronze in Special Olympics

KARACHI: The badminton coach inspired the Pakistani shuttlers to grab three gold, two silver and similar number of bronze medals in the Special Olympic World Summer Games 2003, held in Dublin.

“Our aim is not only to win medals but we stress that special children should play their useful role in the society like normal people do and learn the ways of living a normal life,” said Akber Masood Khan, coach of Special Olympic Pakistan (SOP), here on Saturday.

He said that they had conducted strenuous training of the special children in the three-phased camps, held in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore with each phase of three-week duration. Khan, who had also coached the Pakistani players for the Special Olympics, held in the USA in 1997 and produced good results, said that Pakistani players had participated in eight events in the Dublin Games, which include two men’s singles, two ladies singles, one men’s doubles and one ladies doubles and two mixed doubles.

“Fakhira and Ijja Bano won gold in ladies singles while Imran and Ijja earned gold in mixed doubles. Amin Karim Ali and Imran won silver medals in men’s singles,” he said and added that Chairman SOP Saeed Khan, Secretary General Raunak Lakhani and Mehfooz Elahi, head of delegation, were working hard to make the special children a useful citizen of the society.