KARACHI, May 18: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has arranged three foreign coaches for imparting training to boxers, spikers and wrestlers in the first phase of national training camps for 11th South Asian Games being held at Dhaka next year.

The PSB has picked ten disciplines in which sportspersons are to undergo extensive drills in camps at different venues across the country. The camps in seven disciplines have already commenced while training in rest of the three are due to start soon.

The first phase of training camps ends on June 30 while the second phase begins from July 1, according to PSB.

The disciplines are athletics, badminton, boxing, judo, karate, swimming, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.

The sportswomen have been invited in six of the ten disciplines but with the exception of judo, no arrangement of women coaches has been made in other sports.

Given below are details of camps. (Tabulated under discipline, venues, number of men’s, women’s, coaches (men, women and foreign) and total.

Discipline Venue M W Coaches(M) Coaches(W) Foreign Total

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Athletics Isb/Lhr 38 13 8 - - 59 Badminton Islamabad 8 4 2 - - 14

Boxing Karachi 24 3 - - 1 28

Judo Isb/Lhr 10 8 1 1 - 20

Karate Quetta/Lhr 12 6 2 - - 20

Swimming Isb/Lhr/Kar 20 - 3 - - 23

Table Tennis Karachi 6 6 2 - - 14

Volleyball Islamabad 20 - 2 - 1 23

Weightlifting Islamabad 16 - 2 - - 18

Wrestling Islamabad 24 - 2 - 1 27