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WAPDA dominate National Athletics

Yasir snares javelin gold as Arshad Nadeem stays awayWAPDA on Friday continued their dominance at the National Athletics Championships on Friday, winning several gold medals here at the NED University of Engineering and Technology.Pakistan’s No2 javelin thrower and Asian bronze medallist Yasir Sultan, who…

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Yasir snares javelin gold as Arshad Nadeem stays awayWAPDA on Friday continued their dominance at the National Athletics Championships on Friday, winning several gold medals here at the NED University of Engineering and Technology.Pakistan’s No2 javelin thrower and Asian bronze medallist Yasir Sultan, who…

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Navy's Abdul Qadeer Khan finished second with 67.25 metres, while Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) Muhammad Bilal secured bronze with 66.69 metres.Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem was not in action on the second day, leaving Yasir to lead the field in the event.According to sources Arshad was not feeling well and skipped the event.WAPDA also secured gold in the women's javelin throw through Fatima Hussain, who recorded a distance of 41.76 metres.

Punjab's Sania Ijaz took silver with 41.59 metres, while HEC's Khadija Mehreen claimed bronze with 40.43 metres.

Mehreen had won the women's shot put title on the opening day.In the men's pole vault, WAPDA's Hassan cleared 4.10 metres to take gold.

Punjab's Abdul Rehman finished second with 3.40 metres, while Navy's Ikram Zahoor took third place with 3.30 metres.HEC's Khaula Qamar Khan won the women's 400 metres in 58.76 seconds.

WAPDA's Rida claimed silver with 59.47 seconds, while HEC's Kinza Sarfraz finished third with 59.59 seconds.WAPDA continued their success in the men's 400 metres, where Salman Ahmed secured gold with a time of 48.40 seconds.

Teammate Zewar Shah took silver with 48.60 seconds, while former national champion Abdul Mueed Baloch of PAF finished third by clocking 48.82 seconds.Navy's Amtul Rehman won the women's high jump with 1.55 metres.

WAPDA's Noreen Fatima took silver with 1.45 metres, while Sindh's Anaya Ahsan secured bronze with 1.40 metres.Muhammad Azam of WAPDA won the men's 110-metre hurdles in 14.85 seconds, narrowly ahead of HEC's Abu Bakar, who clocked 14.88 seconds.

WAPDA's Aks Miran finished third with 15.31 seconds.In women's 10,000 metres, WAPDA's Maria Bibi claimed gold in 43 minutes and 35 seconds.

HEC's Gonash Batool finished second to collect her second medal of the championships, having earlier won silver in the 1,500 metres.

WAPDA's Mahnoor Afzal took bronze.WAPDA added another gold in the men's shot put, where Zohaib Khan recorded 16.12 metres to finish first.

HEC's Sahibzada Kashif took silver with 15.87 metres, while WAPDA's Wasiullah was listed as the bronze medallist with a reported distance of 16.67 metres.In the event Army is not participating.

This has given a great opportunity to WAPDA to reign supreme in the competitions in which manual times are being recorded.

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