As Summer Olympics World Games ended in Los Angeles, Pakistani squad ended their campaign in Special Olympics with an impressive tally of 34 medals — 13 gold, 11 silver, 10 bronze — in eight disciplines.
Pakistan won most medals in cycling as the Green-Shirts bagged 11 in the game. Uzma Yousuf and Tauseef Hassan secured two gold medals each, in Time Trial and Road Race respectively, and one gold each was secured by Sumbal Yousuf and Salman Siddiqui in the Time Trial event.
Meanwhile, Mehmoona Hussain and Khadija Irfan won a silver and bronze each in the same event, and Salman also secured a bronze in Time Trial.
Table Tennis players Muhammad Arham and Faisal Khursheed won silver in the doubles event, while Khursheed won bronze with Ruqia Latif in the mixed doubles. Ruqia also won a bronze in the singles event.
In swimming, Asim Zar won gold and silver in 100m and 50m Freestyle races respectively, while Aqsa Janjua won gold in 50m Backstroke and silver in the 50m Freestyle race.
A total of eight medals were secured in athletics, where Ramail Irshad won gold and Saira Ikram, Nadir Hussain, Amina Irshad and Amjad Khan won silver medals, while Marvi Azhar, Nayab Bibi, and Muhammad Waseem won bronze.
In tennis, Ahsan Anwar and Muhammad Qayyum won gold in the doubles event, while Anwar and Qayyum won silver and bronze respectively in the singles category.
In badminton, Jahanzaib and Umesalma Tayyab won gold in the mixed double event, while the two also clinched a gold each in the singles events.
The basketball team won silver medal in Division TM.06MedalB, which had a total of 10 players in the squad.
The five-a-side football team won bronze in Division 5M3 which had eight players in the squad.
