The 4th Inter-school and Collegiate Games formally rolled into action here at the Punjab Stadium in an impressive and colourful ceremony on Tuesday. Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif, who was to declare open the Games, did not reach there due to his busy schedule and Senior Minster Sardar Zulifqar Ali Khosa inaugurated the Games at the Punjab Stadium. Also present on the occasion were President Punjab Olympic Syed Shahid Ali, Sr. Vice President Iftikar Ali Malik, secretary PbOA Idris Haider KKhawaja, Associate secretary Tania Malik, Ijaz Gull, Parveen Sikander Gill and lots of other dignities. Khosa, while speaking on the occasion, said that this was a great moment for the youth of the country and a large number of participants assembled at one place just for sports which is a great for the athletes of the country.
He hoped that in the next games, all the schools of Punjab would have their representation and also congratulated the PbOA for organising the games for the youth.
On Tuesday, cycling event in both school and college boys’ categories were held. In the boys college team events Superior College grabbed first position, Unique Academy was second, Kips got third place. In individual event Wajahat Ali and Amir Sohail of Superior College were first and second respectively with Hafiz Waqas from Unique claiming third position. Hamaza Foundation was first in the Cycling Boys Schools team event, Model High School second and Adbistan Sofia got third position. In school event (Individual), Abid Shafiq and Umer Aslam from Hamza Foundation grabbed first and second positions respectively while Ahsan Ijaz from Adbastan Sofia got third position.
In netball event which was held at Lahore College University, Lahore Allama beat City School, LGS Shah Jamal beat DHA Seniors, Beaconhouse Liberty downed LGS Model Town, LGS 55 Main defeated Govt Fatima School. In girls college event, Lahore Allama defeated LGS and LGS beat Govt College Women Gulberg.
