BUSAN, Oct 3: Pakistan thrashed Malaysia 3-0 in the third place playoff to win a bronze in the snooker team event of the Asian Games Wednesday.

Pakistan’s Abid Ali lost to Talaibek Kadyraliev of Kyrgyzstan 25-11 in the 54kg boxing competition.

In the 4x100m freestyle relay women’s swimming contest, Pakistan’s Kiran Khan, Mahira Karim, Ayesha Tajwar, Sana Abdul Wahid finished seventh with a time of 4:40.84.

In the tennis competition, Thailand scored a 2-1 second round victory over Pakistan.

Pakistani marksmen Mustaqeem Shah, Zahid Ali, Irshad Ali accumalted 1678 points to finish 11th in the 10metre Air Pistol team event.

In rowing’s double sculls event, Pakistani pair of Javed Azmat, Majeed Butt clocked 8:27.94 to settle at sixth place.

Results:

TEAM SNOOKER FINAL

Hong Kong 2 China 1

Third place play-off

Pakistan (Mohammad Yousuf, Saleh Mohammad, Naveen Perwani) 3 Malaysia (Ng Ann Seng, Ooi Fook Yuen, Chong Tim Sam) 0

SWIMMING RESULTS: (4x100m freestyle relay)

1. China; 2. Japan; 3. South Korea; 4. Hong Kong; 5. Sinagpore; 6. Thailand; 7. Pakistan (Kiran Khan, Mahira Karim, Ayesha Tajwar, Sana Abdul Wahid)

TENNIS RESULTS: (TEAM)

Men Second round

Thailand 2 Pakistan 1

China 3 Sri Lanka 0

Indonesia 3 Saudi Arabia 0

Japan 3 Macau 0

Uzbekistan 3 Mongolia 0

SHOOTING RESULTS:(10m Air Pistol team)

1. China; 2. North Korea; 3. Kazakhstan; 4. South Korea; 5. Uzbekistan; 6. Vietnam; 7. Thailand; 8. India; 9. Kyrgyzstan; 10. Japan; 11. Pakistan (Mustaqeem Shah, Zhaid Ali, Irshad Ali); 12. Oman; 13. Kuwait

ROWING RESULTS: (Double sculls)

1. China; 2. Kazakhstan; 3. South Korea; 4. Japan; 5. North Korea; 6. Pakistan.—AFP

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