Sunday, August 26, 2012

Punjab Youth Sports Festival begins in Lahore

By AM Khan


LAHORE (TheSportsNext) August 27, 2012: The Punjab Youth Sports Festival 2012 began among the 55200 sports and Youth Development Councils at neighbourhood and village level across the province with the entire focus remained on revival of sports culture and healthy activities.

 

In the city, competitions in athletics, badminton, billiard, cricket tapeball, arms wrestling, tug of war and volleyball started at 9 am and by noon the events were concluded except from some of the union councils and towns where the last day’s rain left the fields and ground unplayable. In these localities and areas, the events were postponed for the next day.

The honourable and respected personalities of these towns declared open the competitions at their respective councils.

At UC 31 and 32, Baja Line A beat their B team 2-1 in volleyball competition while Baray Mian Dars Reds defeated their Whites team 2-1 in Tug of war contest.

In arms wrestling, five bouts were held and the winners were Shahzad Mehmood, Ijaz Nawaz, Suraj Mukhtar, Akash Sohail and Imran Zeeshan. MNA Naseer Ahmed Bhutta was the chief guest of the day at UC 31 and 32. He was introduced with the participants and later, he enjoyed different competitions held among the council members.

The competition at Govt Science College Wahadat Road started at its normal time. Chairman Sports GCU Arshad Ali Mian was the chief guest of the opening ceremony. In all, 112 players participated in different events of the festival while 54 players from Union Council 110 and 58 from Union Council 111 locked their horns for top honour.

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