WAPDA clinched the 43rd National Athletics Championship out-pointing one of the toughest teams of the competition Army here at the Punjab Stadium on Thursday. WAPDA secured 698 points to lift the overall trophy while Army with 432 points remained runner-up and were followed by Navy who got 103 points. From among provinces, Punjab was the leader with 88 points while Sindh got 27 points.
WAPDA’S dominance in the track and field events was due to the efforts of their female athletes who won 19 of the 24 gold medals, 14 silver out of 23 and four of 11 bronze medals while Army got 14 gold, 12 silver and nine bronze. Punjab won nine bronze medals and remained barren in gold and silver. Balochistan, Khyber PK, Islamabad, AJK, Fata and Pakistan Steel did not even get close to the winning podium.
As many as 13 finals were contested on the final day and WAPDA claimed eight gold medals in 1500m, 400m, 4x400m Relay through Farhan Ahmed, Asad Iqbal, Hussain Saeed, Ali Asad and 400m (women), 4x100m,5000m 4x400m relay and heptathlon through Najma Parveen, Tayyaba, Samreen, Wajiha, Mariam, Rabia Ashiq, Muzammil, Alia and Nasreen Akhtar. Army enjoyed dominance in high jump, triple jump, 4x100m relay, 3000m steeple chase through Maqsood Ahmed, Zafar Iqbal, Liaqat, Khalil, Saghir, Imran and Muhammad Nawaz. Earlier, WAPDA added another four gold medals on day two to its medals tally while Army won three gold medals by the close of second day’s activities. Maryum Babar brought gold for WAPDA in long jump, Ali Mohammad in 800 metres, Muzzamil Ilyas in women’s 400m hurdles and Sumera Tayyaba in 200 metres race.
Final day results:
High jump (men): Maqsood Ahmed, Army, 1.97m, Anwar Khan, Army, 1.94m, M Hasil, Sindh, 1.80m
Discus throw (women): Abida Chengazi, Railways, 34.84m, Zeenat Parveen, WAPDA, 34.70m, Attia Rasool, Army, 31.68m
1500m (men): Farhan Ahmed, WAPDA, 3:55.10, Ali, WAPDA, 3:56.1, Hafiz Sajid Hussain, Army, 3:58.8
400m (men): Asad Iqbal, WAPDA, 47.7, Saeed Ahmed, WAPDA, 48.7, Shahid Ali, Army, 49.3
400m (women): Najma Parveen, WAPDA, 59.6, Muzzamil Ilyas, WAPDA, 1:02.4, Samabia Naureen, Punjab, 1:04.9
Triple Jump (men): Zafar Iqbal, Army, 15.63m, Mazhar Fareed, Army, 15.07m, Fayyaz Ahmed, WAPDA, 14.76m
4x100m relay (men): Liaqat, Khalil, Saghir, Imran, Army, 40.9, Ali, Safdar, Sajid, Rashid Ali, WAPDA, 41.2, Waseem, Samiullah, Ameen, Shahbaz, PAF, 42.5
4x100m relay (women): Tayyaba, Samreen, Wajiha, Mariam, WAPDA, 50.0, Samia, Sobia, Razia, Sehrish, HEC, 52.2, Sara, Musawara, Bano, Amna, Punjab, 55.0
5000m (women): Rabia Ashiq, WAPDA, 21:57.9, Shabana, WAPDA, 22:01.6, Samabia Naureen, Punjab, 22:41.4
3000m steeple chase (men): Muhammad Nawaz, Army, 9:17.1, Ahsan Ali, Navy, 9:20.6, Waqas, PAF, 9:33.3
4x400m relay (men): Hussain, Saeed, Ali, Asad, WAPDA, 3:15.00, Munir, Din, Shahid, Saghir, Army, 3:18.3, Tahir, Rashid, Kamran, Shahid, PAF, 3:25.8
4x400m relay (women): Najma, Rabia, Muzammil, Alia, WAPDA, 4:19.9, Sehrish, Sobia, Almas, Nighat, HEC, 4:33.1, Amina, Atia, Bano, Batool, Punjab, ;4:42.6
Heptathlon (women): Nasreen Akhtar, WAPDA, 3803 (NNR)*, Aliya Noor, WAPDA, 3794, Nazia Naz, Army, 2673
Last night results:
Long Jump (women): Maryum Babar, WAPDA, 5.40m, Nighat Kausar, HEC, 4.74m, Nadia Zulfiqar, WAPDA, 4.74m
800m (men): Ali, WAPDA, 1:49.6, Farhan Ahmed, WAPDA, 1:49.8, Ghulam Mustafa, PAF, 1:54.1
200m (men): Liaqat Ali, Army, 20.9, Muhammad Rashid, WAPDA, 21.5, Ali Amir, WAPDA, 21.7
400m Hurdles (men): Nokar Hussain, Army, 53.3, M Din, Army, 54.2, Adeel Akhtar, WAPDA, 54.9
Long Jump (men): M Riaz, Army, 7.26m, Zaffar Iqbal, Army, 7.25m, Fayyaz Ahmed, WAPDA, 7.24m
400m Hurdles (women): Muzzamil Ilyas, WAPDA, 1:05.3, Aliya Noor, WAPDA, 1:05.7, Attiya Sultana, Punjab, 1:11.4
200m (women): Sumera Tayyaba, WAPDA, 26.2, Najma Parveen, WAPDA, 26.6, Sehrish Asghar, HEC, 28.4.