KARACHI: Fancied Karachi maintained its ascendancy by retaining the Moenjodaro trophy after stretching an unprecedented run as curtain fell on the four-day 17th Sindh Games at the PSB Coaching Centre here on Sunday.
Karachi amassed a total of 178 medals — 125-36-16 to made it 17 in-a-row since inception of the games in 1986.
Karachi’s medals break-up is 81-24-12 for men’s 45-12-4 for (women’s.
Though overall runners-up Hyderabad ended up in three figures, a vast difference was quite visible in gold medals. Hyderabad returned with a haul of 122 medals — 15-61-46 to retain its slot.
Sukkur grabbed third spot in the six-team games securing in all 83 medals — 12-20-51 while Mirpurkhas occupied fourth slot with a tally of 68 medals — 7-18-43.
Debutant Shaheed Benazirabad shone by avoiding the bottom spot securing 6-11-39 medals while Larkana finished at the bottom with 4-25-24.
A total of 170 golds, 171 silvers and 219 bronze were distributed among successful athletes in the Games. Two silver medals were awarded in a women’s track event which had raised quite a few eyebrows.
Arbab Tanoli and Esha Iffan, both of Karachi, were declared best male athlete and best female athlete respectively. Shaheed Benazirabad was presented with the Fairplay Trophy.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, who graced the closing ceremony, gave away the prizes, while spending an hour at the venue.