KARACHI: Well built Army sportspersons have maintained their stranglehold with a rich haul of 14 gold medals in the National Taekwondo Championship at the end of the second day at the NED University of Engineering and Technology gymnasium on Sunday.

The soldiers, who clinched seven of the 14 golds in different categories of the poomsae event by Saturday evening, completed the rout by adding the remaining seven to their tally when the curtains fell on the opening day.

The soldiers’ arch-rivals Wapda had to be content with second slot with a collection of eight silvers and three bronze while Railways are placed third on the medals table with five silvers and two bronze medals.

Hosts Sindh has so far picked up six bronze medals.

Meanwhile, eight events — male -58kg, -68kg, -80kg and +87kg and female -46kg, -53kg, -62 and +73kg — had reached the final stage at the time of filing this report on Sunday evening.

Results:

Male -58 kg:

First round: M. Nisar (Fata) bt Shahzor Ahmed (Punjab) 5-3 pts; Toufique Hussain (Railways) bt Farmanullah (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) 7-4 pts; Sibtain Ali (Gilgit-Baltistan) bt Wajahat (Sindh Blues) 7-6 pts; Talha Amin (HEC) bt Shah Zaman (Balochistan) 5-3 pts; Haroon Khan (Wapda) bt M. Nasir (Police) 7-2 pts; Umer Iqbal (Army) bt Naveed Abbas (AJK) 11-2 pts.

Male -68kg:

First round: Imran (Sindh Blues) bt Farid Murtaza (AJK) 7-5 pts; Usman Abid (Railways) bt M. Zubair (HEC) 7-4 pts; Shafi (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Amjad Ali Shah (Fata) 8-5 pts; Arsalan Khan (Wapda) bt Ahmed Atique (Police) 8-3 pts; Ejaz Ahmed (Army) bt Zahoor Ahmed (Balochistan) 8-2 pts; Sajawal Zaheer (Islamabad) bt M. Nauman (Punjab) 5-3 pts.

Male -80kg:

First round: Abdul Khaliq (Balochistan) bt Aqeel Sabir (Police) 6-3 pts; Kamran (Gilgit-Baltistan) bt M. Islam (HEC) 9-4 pts; Saad Qadeer (Wapda) bt Gul Badeem (Fata) 12-4 pts; Noor Ahmed (Sindh Blues) walkover (AJK player), Afnan Shah (Army) bt Mubashir Nazar (Islamabad) 11-3 pts; Mohib Ali (Sindh Greens) b t M. Raza (Punjab) 9-4 pts.

Male +87kg:

First round: Fazal Khan (Balochistan) bt Alamgir (Sindh Greens) walkover.

Female -46kg: First round: Esha Safdar (Punjab) bt Kanwal (Police), Asif Ali (HEC) bt Shukria Batool (Balochistan) 4-3 pts; Sameera (Railways) bt Muneeba Sehr (Wapda) 6-4 pts.

Second round : Mehwish (Sindh Greens) bt Esha Safdar (Punjab), Farhana (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Samreen (Islamabad) 8-4 pts; Sidra Batool (Army) bt asifa Ali (HEC) 4-3 pts; Sameera (Railways) bt Kamraz (Sindh Blues) 6-4 pts.

Female -53kg:

First round: Flower Zaheer (HEC) bt Priya (Sindh Blues), Uzma Naz (Police) bt Adila Batool (Balochistan), Gul (Khyber pakhtunkhwa) bt Madiha (Punjab).

Second round: Naqash Hamdani (Army) bt Flower Zaheer (HEC), Humera Naz (Islamabad) bt Faiza (Railways), Aqsa (Wapda) bt Uzma Naz (Police).

Female -62kg:

First round: Misbah (HEC) bt Jameela (Balochistan), Yammna Siddiqui (Army) bt Sonia (Wapda), Kinza Gul (Sindh Greens) walkover (Islamabad player).

Second round: Laiba Naz (Police) bt Misbah (HEC), Hasina (Sindh Blues) bt Aqsa Nargis (Punjab).

Female +73kg:

First round: Samia (Punjab) walkover (Islamabad player), Nusrat (Army) bt (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Hina (HEC) bt Anam Qureshi (Police).

Second round: Muneeza (Sindh greens) bt Samia (Punjab), Sajida (Wapda) bt Shakira (Balochistan), Hina (HEC) bt Adeeba (Sindh Blues).

Saturday’s remaining finals:

Male Pair Poomsae:

+30kg: 1-Arif and M. Khan (Army), 2-M. Qayyum and Mujahid (Railways), 3-M. Islam and M. Sufyan (HEC)

Male Pair Poomsae:

-30kg: 1-Shahbaz and Imran (Army), 2-Ahmed Raza and Hashim (Railways), 3-Nabeel and Azeem (Wapda)

Female Pair:

1-Aleena Batool and Mehrunnisa (Army), 2-Samra and Tayyaba (Wapda), 3-Urooba and Shehzina (Sindh A)

Mixed Pair Poomsae:

1-Abbas and Mehrunnisa (Army), 2-Tayyaba and Azeem (Wapda), 3-Ishma and Ghufran (HEC)

Group Poomsae:

-30kg: 1-Rashid, Imran and Abbas (Army), 2-Kashif, Hashim and Raza (Railways), 3-Nabeel, Azeem and Umair (Wapda)

Female Group Poomsae:

1-Alina, Mehrunnisa and Naqsh (Army), 2-Samra, Tayyaba and Sumaira (Wapda), 3-Hannah, Hajra and Tanzila (Sindh A)

Creative Poomsae:

1-Mumtaz, Mudassir, Sharjeel, Waqas and Shahbaz (Army), 2-Ghufran, Irfan, Anas, Ishma and Asifa (HEC), 3-Sufyan, Sumaira, Aeman, Aroob and Shehzena (Sindh A)

Monday’s fixtures: Bouts start at 9am.

Medals table

(Tabulated under team, gold, silver, bronze)

Army 14 0 0

Wapda 0 8 3

Railways 0 5 2

HEC 0 1 2

Punjab 0 0 1

Sindh 0 0 6

Published in Dawn, May 9th, 2016