Pak athletes land China to feature in Asian Games

ISLAMABAD, Sep 27 (APP): Pakistan athletics team landed China on Wednesday to feature in athletics competitions of the ongoing 19th Asian Games at Hangzhou.
According to details, a total of 13 men and 4 women would be seen in action in the Asian games, while team officials include Olympian Sadaf Siddiqui, Fayyaz Hussain, Sajjad Mahmood and Muhammad Sajid.
“We are thankful to the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) and Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) for the participation of a large number of Pakistani athletes in the Asian Games,” said Olympian Sadaf Siddiqui, team official of athletic team.
We are hopeful that the national athletes will make the country proud in the athletic competitions,” she said and added that China has made best arrangements for hosting the Games.
The Asian Games athletics competition would be held from September 29 to October 5 and country’s premier javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem along with Mohammad Yasir would be in action in the javelin throw event.
The other athletes including Gohar Shahbaz, Shajar Abbas (100 and 200 meters race), Muhammad Asad ur Rehman (400m), Waqas Akbar (800m), Muhammad Akhtar (5000m), Farhan Ilyas, Abid Razzaq (110m and 400m hurdles), Sohail Amir (10000m race), Jafar Ashraf (pole vault), Muhammad Afzal. (Long Jump), Shehroz Khan (High Jump), Tameen Khan (100M), Ghazala Ramzan (100 Meters Hurdles), Rabila Faraq (1500M), Farhat Bano (10,000 Meters Race) would be seen in action for medal race.
On the other hand, the Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) two female athletes Sahib e Asra and Arooj Kiran didn’t travel for the Games with the team.