KARACHI: Pakistan’s Muhammad Luqman and Habibullah clinched gold medals to increase the country’s gold medals tally to nine in the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday.
Luqman bagged gold in the 100m race by clocking 15.21 seconds of timing. He also won a silver medal in the long jump.
Meanwhile, in powerlifting, Habibullah won gold in the 83 kilogramme deadlift. He also won silvers in squat, bench press and in combined weight.
Mirwaiz won silver in the 3,000m race. He completed the distance in ten minutes and 11 seconds.
Pakistan hockey team won bronze by beating Paraguay 3-2 in the game for the third place. This is the first time that Pakistan is featuring in hockey.
In swimming’s 50m freestyle, Hasan Patel won bronze when he clocked one minute and 3.93 seconds. Sadia Junaid won silver medal in tennis women's singles.
Due to heavy rain some events were reshuffled which will be held on the final day on Sunday (today).
Earlier, Pakistan's Usman Qamar won another gold medal in the ongoing Special Olympics World Games in Berlin, Germany on Thursday. After bagging a gold medal in the cycling event, Usman won the gold in the Cycling Time Trial event.
Zainab Ali Raza of Pakistan also won a gold medal in the Cycling event.
Usman completed the time trial of the 2km road race distance in 7 minutes 21.59 seconds while Zainab Ali Raza completed the 2 km distance in the cycling event in 6 minutes 49.29 seconds.
Faizan Lakhani Faizan Lakhani is Deputy Editor (Sports) at Geo News.