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Wrestler Bilal wins bronze medal at Commonwealth Games
Gujranwala's Mohammad Bilal became the third Pakistani athlete to win a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games 2018 after he defeated English wrestler George Ramm by 3:1 classification points in the 57kg category of men's freestyle wrestling on Thursday.
The 22-year-old wrestler had earlier defeated Malta's Gary Giordmaina and Sri Lanka's Divoshan Charles Fernando. He, however, had lost to India's Rahul Aware, who went on to clinch the gold medal.
The other two Pakistani athletes who won medals at the Games — 18-year-old Talha Talib and 20-year-old Noor Dastagir — also hail from Gujranwala.
Talib was the first athlete from Pakistan to win a medal in the 2018 Games — that are underway in Australia's Gold Coast — after he lifted 283kg in a weightlifting category of 62kg.
Dastagir, who participated in the +105kg category, lifted a total of 395kg to win a bronze medal.
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Welcome to the club of medal winners in the 2018 Common Wealth Games in Australia. Keep it up and hang on tough.
Congratulations. All the 3 medals came from athletes from Gujranwala. Could someone throw light on the reason behind it?
Heartiest congratulations. Keep winning.
Inshallah...... Congratulations..... Inshallah, we will be victor in every field of life very soon!!!
congratulations.
Who won Gold? :)
Congrats for winning Bronze. Keep it up.
conragts 3 medals in bronze hope we can have gold
All the best
Some people from a Insecure country will now brag how much they’ve won when we’re not even Intrepid knowing that
congratulations to victorious but advise for politicians and society.sports is integral part of healthy and growing life.so without partiality support all sports.spend on infrastructure and incentive to athletes.small countries in geography, population, resources are doing much better.
Congratulations respect from dravida Nadu
@Dravida Nadu You mean Karnataka? Because Karnataka is the real dravida nadu.
Congratulations.........but overall performance of pakistan is not as per expectations. In CWG, we stand nowhere against our neighbour. Need tremendous improvements in the field of sports.
@ROCKY good question ??
Many Many congratulations...with this medal Pakistan has attained rank 31 out of total 39
@ROCKY It says in the article,even though it is just a passing remark.
Great show.
After they return, they should be inspirations and mentor for other young athletes. Congratulations.
@Kailash Singh I believe there's an old wrestling tradition in Gujranwala. It's known as the city of wrestlers.
Overall, poor performance by Pakistan in CWG 2018.
Proof we are a super power
Congratulations to entire nation. It's a big win
Next time AIM high & celebrate only Gold, there are countries insignificant in size, economy and population but Rich with the Gold Medals at CWG.
Bravo !
Pakistan with a population of 200 million plus, has won only 3 bronze medals. Smaller countries with less than one tenth the population has won more medals than us. We as a nation do not give any importance to sport and human resources.
@Shiva Protest to game organizers to maintain balance.
@BhaRAT . You are mistaken. No one here is interested in comparing with countries with lower medals. The sports associations here are thinking what they should do to close the gap with countries with higher medal tally. We are aware the gap is large, but work is on. I assume that is what your sports associations are also doing.
@dynamite Appreciate. Your information is right.
In 57 KG freestyle, India won the Gold, Canada won the Silver and we shared the Bronze with Nigeria. Congratulations to all.
When will Pakistan win Gold?
In a mega event, winning a medal is great aspect.Congratulation to Pakistan from India
@Kailash Singh Historically Gujranwala has been known for wrestling from ancient times. Gujranwala is also home town of Maharaja of Punjab Sher-e-Punjab Ranjit Singh.
@ASLAM.QUADRI if you want to tack inspiration take from which are above you and wants to satisfy look smaller one.freind there are many countries which are smaller and poor but we'll ahead in medal tally.its only sports culture, infrastructure and over obsession about cricket only.otherwise no shortage of resources and talent.
A little more efforts and super power will be ahead of Uganda and Botswana.
Congratulations Pakistan for winning the third medal.
Congratulation guys. Great showing.
Good News. Sports is a constructive way of engaging youth away from drugs , terrorism and depression.
The countries who do well economically tebd to do better in sports. China , US are powerhouse of sports with best facilities.
At this hour , India is standing 3rd position with 36 medals including 14 gold.
Australia leads with 156 medals.
@Kailash Gujranwala is known as the city of wrestlers and has a history of producing great wrestlers and athletes.
@Kailash Singh Gujrawaala is the city of pehlwaans
@Kailash Singh
Gujranwala is famous for its food. Hence the result :D
Well done Pakistan...
Congratulations all 3 of you!!! In 1958 India Won 1 gold and 2 sliver total 3 medals. Considering this numbers Pakistan is 60 years behind in sports than India... Government need to be very serious about this... India's sport minister is a sport person and won Olympic Gold.... a non-political person... so this shows how serious India is in sport... Do not take it in wrong way... just telling the facts by example
Congratulations another success from tiny Gujranwala.
Perhaps we should train all our athletes in Gujranwala and pay the coaches professional international level salaries to recognise how much they have delivered in positively supporting and training young people and got putting Pakistan's name positively in the headlines.
Winning three bronze medals is not a mean feat for a country like ours. We must win more such medals and our athletes and participants will do us pride, Inshallah.
Mind blowing performance by Bilal. Bravo!
Has any one noticed that all medal winners (for this edition of Games) hail from Gujranwala ? They must be doing something 'right'. Well done to the boys and all the very best for them in the future.
@Kailash Singh: I would like to ask the same. Gujranwala, the city of wrestlers has always been a 'warm' city. To see people win medals is a touch above. Well done to them.
Well done Gujranwala ! This town seems to be doing us proud.
@Kailash Singh - traditionally, Gujranwala has remained an ancient center of traditional 'pehlwani' and there are still many 'akhaars' there. Also, some folk Punjabi sports like 'Kabbadi' etc are played in the surrounding areas (rural) with typical Punjabi zeal and gusto. In more recent times, since British rule (around 1940s onward) there has also been increased interest in weightlifting and boxing and also other non-desi style of wrestling . The people tend to be diet conscious and healthy and quite athletic, too, generally. I believe all these reasons have contributed in making Gujranwala a developing center for certain sports in Pakistan. It's sad that nearby Lahore city, which also used to share many of these sport interests, has declined.
3 Bronze medals!!!!! WOW Congratulations!
It seems Gujarawal is Haryana (India) of Pakistan as all winner wrestlers are from Gujarawala.
Congratulations Pakistan on winning your 3rd bronze medal.
@ABHIJEET bro your sport minister wins silver not gold chek your fact
@Lohpurush I disagree, economic power does mean translating more money for training and other sports infrastructure, however, Pakistan for atleast 50 years was wining medals and world cups in different sports even though the sports men or the government was not rich like there european counterparts. For eg our first british open winner won in 1951 having done it without wearing any shoes. Same goes for hockey and football and athletics. We were on top for 50 years in squash and hockey untill the year 2000.
The current scenario is that we have corrupt politicians who have positioned corrupt officials in posts who are damaging everything and our reputation. If you dont have those who are the right person for the right job you will never get the desired results.
Looks like Gujranwala is Haryana of Pakistan!!!
Cyprus a country of 11.6 lakh people has won 8 gold medals. Its high time India and pakistan start focussing the energy of youth into sports. We need more heroes..
@BhaRAT "Some people from a Insecure country will now brag how much they’ve won when we’re not even Intrepid knowing that" Come on dude.. We Pakistanis should give credit where its due. Kudos to India for making it their biggest ever CWG medal heist to date - medals in the forties till now with 17 golds. Good portents for India to making it bigger in the next tournament and we should learn from their successes. Pakistan zindabad.
@adnan footbal and athletics? Are you sure? Asian used to be good in field hockey when hardly any countries played it. We always ducked in sports and it had all to do with economics. With proper support any talent can be turned into a champion, simple as that.
India's economic success is spelling out in sports - they used to win lesser medals - now they are doing good at CWG, AG and OG! We used to have a good boxing team at Asian and CWG levels - but the current home problems causing this dismal performance! Both Sri Lanka & Bangladesh are ahead of us on medals table.
@Kailash Singh Gujranawala is known as the city of wrestlers. There are many Kabbadi grounds and youngsters are trained at very young age. Most of the famous pehelwans (wrestlers) are from Gujranawala too.
We need to appreciate the skill and hard work of the individual. Doesn't matter if it's 3rd bronze or 50th gold.