Karachi retain trophy

Published June 17, 2006

HYDERABAD, June 16: Formidable Karachi, as expected, retained the overall trophy of the 10th Sindh Games which came to a spectacular end on Friday.

Hosts Hyderabad put up a resolute fight to finish runners up in the five team competition while Larkana claimed third position. Sukkur settled for fourth position while Mirpurkhas finished at the bottom.

Karachi topped the medal table with 62-32-14 medals including 12 gold won by women athletes.

Karachi dominated karate, gymnastics, swimming, body building and tae kwon do among other disciplines.

Hyderabad collected 31-42-35 medals for a total of 108 with almost half (16) coming through the efforts of women.

Karachi, who lost basketball (men) title to Hyderabad, also lagged behind in track and field events (men) securing three gold, four silver and a bronze.

Larkana athletes proved that they are a force to be reckoned with when they topped men athletics table with six gold, eight silver and four bronze.

Similarly, Hyderabad dominated women athletics. The “Fastest Women” award went to Hyderabad’s Moona who won 100m sprint in 14.38 seconds.

Hyderabad’s Rizwana Waseem turned out to be the outstanding athlete of the games.

Results:

ATHLETICS: (women)

3000m: 1-Rizwana Waseem (Hyd) 15:23:41; 2-Humaira Nazeer (Hyd); 3-Binish Qureshi (Suk)

HOP STEP & JUMP: 1-Hina Rafiq (Hyd) 28ft 8 inch; 2-Naila Rani (Kar); 3-Irum (Suk)

(Men)

400m: 1-Abdullah Chandio (Lar) 52.78 sec; 2-Mohammad Abbas (Kar); 3-Nusrat Ali (Suk) 10,000m: Rizwan Manzoor (Suk) 38:59 2-Kamran Jan (Hyd); 3-Mohammad Rafiq (Suk)

SHOT PUT: 1-Saifullah Randhawa (Hyd); 2-Tahir Hussain (Lar); 3-Shafiullah (Hyd)

DISCUS THROW: 1-Shafiullah (Hyd) 116 ft 9 inch; 2-Saifullah Randhawa (Hyd); 3-Sajjad Hussain (Lar)

JAVELIN THROW: 1-Saifullah Randhawa (Hyd); 2-Abdul Sattar (Kar); 3-Abdul Hafeez (Mpk)

LONG JUMP: 1-Mohammad Umair (Lar) 19 ft 10 inch; 2-Ghulam Farooq (Lar); 3-Tariq Hussain (Hyd)

HOP STEP & JUMP: 1-Fida Hussain (Suk) 2-Mohammad Umair (Lar); 3-Tahir Hussain (Lar)

BODYBUILDING:

(Class-I): 1-Jahanzaib Badar (Kar); 2-Ghulamullah (Lar); 3-Mohammad Shafi (Hyd)

(Class-II): 1-Faraz (Kar); 2-Allah Dayo (Suk); 3-Aamir Ali Abbas (Hyd)

(Class-III): 1-Abdul Salam (Kar); 2-Mohammad Mithal (Lar); 3-Fariq Chand (Hyd)

(CLASS-IV): 1-Fayyaz Hussain (Lar); 2-Habibullah (Kar); 3-Zeeshan Shah (Lar)

TENNIS (men):

Karachi bt Hyderabad 2-1. Nomi Qamar bt Omer Qazi 6-4, 6-1; Jalil Khan-Khalid Ali lost to Omer Qazi-Saad Baloch 4-6, 2-6; Jalil Khan (Kar) bt Saad Baloch 6-3,6-3.

HAND BALL (men):

Hyderabad bt Karachi 9-6

SHOOTING BALL:

Sukkur bt Larkana 16-14, 16-14, 16-12

MALAKHRA:

1-Ali Nawaz (Suk); 2-Majid Ali (Hyd); 3-Kuraro (Lar)

BADMINTON (men):

Hyderabad bt Karachi 2-0. Imran Mohib bt Harisson 21-8, 22-2; Imran Mohib-Mohammad Ali bt Anees and Saqib 21-16, 21-14

Sukkur bt Mirpurkhas 2-0. Asad bt Shafiq Ansari 21-9, 21-6; Asad -Zaheer bt Akhlaq Rajput -Arif Javed 21-6, 21-11

BOXING:

48-kg: 1-Jabran Ahmed (Hyd); 2-Mumtaz Ali (Suk); 3-Mohammad Arif (Mpk)

51-kg: 1-Qasim Khan (Hyd); 2-Khalil Ahmed (Kar); 3-M.Khan (Mpk) -Mohammad Aslam (Suk)

54-kg: 1-Faisal Shah (Hyd); 2-Mohammad Husain Siyal (Mpk); 3-Hafeez (Suk)

57-kg: 1-Munawar Hussain (Mpk); 2-Ahmed Zahir (Hyd); 3-Zahid Ali (Suk)- Sajad Farman (Kar)

60kg: 1-Shahbaz Akhtar (Kar); 2-Mohammad Ali Shah (Hyd); 3-Abbas Ali (Suk)- Shakeel Ahmed (Mpk)

64kg: 1-Pir Bux (Mpk); 2-Abdul Aziz (Hyd); 3- Shoaib Baloch (Kar)

69kg: 1-Mohammad Ramzan (Kar); 2-Babar Jamil (Suk); 3-Shahzad (Mpk)- Qumber Ali Shah (Hyd)

75kg: 1-Nadir Khan (Kar); 2-Maqsood (Lar); 3-Allah Bux (Mpk)

81kg: 1-Zahid Baloch (Hyd); 2-Yasir Jamil (Suk); 3-Mohammad Imran (Mpk)- Naeem Muran (Kar)

91kg: 1-Mohammad Hadi (Kar); 2-Syed Zakir Ali (Hyd); 3-Abdullah (Lar) -Mohammad Iqbal (Suk)

91 + k g: 1-Mohammad Mazhar (Mpk); 2-Khuda Bux (Hyd)

TAE KWON DO (men):

42-46kg: 1-Anwar (Kar); 2-Rasheed (Hyd); 3-Oshan Bhatti (Suk)

46-50kg: 1-Shahbaz (Kar); 2-Raj Kumar (Mpk); 3-M.Wajid Shaikh (Hyd)

50-54kg: 1-S.Arshad Ali (Kar); Samatt (Mpk); 3-M.Faisal Khan (Hyd)

54-58kg: 1-Nadeem Yousuf (Kar); 2-M.Sharif (Suk); 3-Hassan Ali (Hyd)

58-62kg: 1-Balack Hussain (Kar); 2-Abdul Samad (Suk); 3-Waheed Murad (Hyd)

62-66kg: 1-Junaid Khalil (Kar); 2-S.Sadiq Ali (Hyd); 3-M.Qasim (Suk)

70-74kg: 1-M.Tahir Ali (Kar); Usman Danish (Hyd); 3-Munir Ahmed (Suk)

74-78kg: 1-Sarfaraz Ali (Kar); 2-S.Asad Ali (Hyd); 3-Shahid Ali (Suk)

78 +kg: 1-Ashfaq Ahmed (Kar); 2-Jameel Ahmed (Suk); 3-M.Yousuf (Hyd).

Final medals table

G S B T

Karachi 62 32 14 108

Hyderabad 31 42 35 108

Larkana 14 15 43 72

Sukkur 11 18 18 47

Mirpurkhas 4 14 18 36

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