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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