0
BUSAN, Oct 5: Pakistan’s Noman Karim reached lightweight quarterfinals after outpointing Kazakhstan’s Berik Serikbayev 14-9 in the Asian Games boxing competition Saturday.
The diminutive Pakistani fighter’s quarterfinal opponent will be Violito Payla of the Philippines who put a dent in Uzbekistan’s medal hopes by outpointing Tulashboy Doniyorov 31-26.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s miserable run in women’s swimming contest continued with the quartet of Kiran Khan, Mehrunnisa Khan, Sana Wahid and Ayesha Tajwar, finishing at seventh in the 4x100m medley relay, clocking 5:12.29.
4X100M MEDLEY RELAY
1. China (Zhan Shu, Luo Xuejuan, Zhou Ya Fei, Xu Yanwei) 4:00.21 (AR/GR)
2. Japan (Noriko Inada, Fumiko Kawanabe, Yuko Nakanishi, Tomoko Nagai) 4:05.75
3. South Korea (Shim Min-Ji, Ku Hyo-Jin, Park Kyung-Wha, Sun So-Eun) 4:13.41
4. Hong Kong (Sherry Tsai, Liu Ka Lei, Flora Kong, Tang Hing Ting) 4:18.88
5. Thailand (Chonlathorn Vorathamrong, Jariyawadee Narongrit, Pilin Tachakittiranan, Chorkaew Choompol) 4:24.13
6. Philippines (Lizza Danila, Jenny Guerrero, Lucia Dacanay, Ong Heidi Gem) 4:25.12
7. Pakistan (Kiran Khan, Mehrunnisa Khan, Sana Abdul Wahid, Ayesha Tajwar) 5:12.29.
VOLLEYBALL
The Pakistan volleyball team was close to make an exit from the volleyball championship when Japan beat them in straight sets 25-16,25-18,25-13 in just 59 minutes at Gijang Gymnasium Saturday.
With their second successive defeat the green shirted Pakistanis face uphill task ahead by playing mighty defending champions China tomorrow and their chances for making some useful impression appear bleak. Pakistan lost to Chinese Taipei in their opening match.
Pakistan’s assistant coach said his side lost to a superior rival which outplayed them in all departments of the game.
“There is no excuse for our loss, it is our poor performance which let us down and we need a lot of improvement to offer equal fight to opponents like China, Japan and Korea,” he said.
CYCLING
Pakistan’s Haroon Rashid gave a dismal performance in the 48.4 km individual time trial final of the cycling event by finishing the second last Saturday.
Haroon Pakistan’s ace rider always struggled to meet the force and strength of the opponents and took 14th place out of the 15 participants.
However, Haroon gained some relief knowing that East Timor’s Jorge Pereira was at the rock bottom.
Kazakhstan Andrei Teteriouk won the event with a timing of 1.02.11.050, riding his bike at a speed of 46.700 kilometre per hour.
Haroon was almost seven minutes behind of the winner. He clocked 1:11.19.290, with a speed of 40.717kilometre per hour.
The result achieved by the Pakistani cyclist suggest Pakistan Cycling Federation that it must taken into consideration the timings of the Asian level tournament and should send only those riders who have the potential to get closer to these timings.
The poor performance of Haroon exposed the tall claims of the PCF that their cyclists were equally good to compete with the top riders of the Asia but the results achieved shows that Pakistanis were in comparison at this level of the sport.
KABADDI RESULTS
Pakistan beat Japan 21-12
Pakistan beat Sri Lanka 20-6
Bangladesh beat Malaysia 46-7
India beat Bangladesh 37-14.—Agencies
