Fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games: Pakistan's quest for medals winning continue

Pakistan medal winning quest continued on the fifth day when Beenish Khan, Ambareen Massih, Humaria Ashiq and Muhammad Safdar claimed four bronze medals in the Women and Men Classic Belt Wrestling event of the ongoing 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games being played at various venues in the Olympic City at Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) on Wednesday. With four bronze medals in the Classic Belt Wrestling, Pakistan raced to grab total nine medals, three in the Free Style event of the Belt Wrestling and two in the Traditional Wrestling.
The most promising Beenish Khan and Ambareen Massih have got the distinction of winning two bronze medals each. Ambareen won bronze medal in the Traditional Wrestling, followed by a medal in the Classic Style Wrestling while Beenish bagged one bronze medal each in the Women Free Style -70kg and in the same weight took another in the Women Classic Style Wrestling. With four more bronze medals mean, Pakistan has so far won one gold, two silver medals and 13 bronze medals.
Host Turkmenistan is leading the medal table with 13 gold medals, six silver medal and seven bronze medals in Belt Wrestling event, followed by Mongolia with one gold medal, and a bronze, Uzbekistan with three silver and 10 bronze, Kyrgyzstan with two silver and eight bronze medals Kazakhstan with two silver medal and three bronze medals, Iran with one silver and eight bronze medals and Pakistan with seven bronze medal struggling behind the top medal winners.
Beenish Khan took berth into the semi-final of the Women Classic Style -70kg by defeated India's Shilwant Divya Guruling on points by 5-0. Beenish did not give much time to India's Shilwant Divya to come and strike back, Humaira Ashiq defeated Alymova Ayjemal of Turkmenistan on points by 2-1 in Women Classic Style -50kg and Muhammad Safdar defeated Vikranmjit Singh of India by 5-2 in the quarter-finals of the Men's Classic Style -65kg weight.
Mohabat Ali Drigh of Pakistan lost to Yaser Mohammadirostam of Iran 7-0 in -80kg, Murzabekov Erlanbek of Kyrgyzstan in -70kg by 6-1, Pochoev Dostonbek of Tajikistan defeated Mohsin Raza of Pakistan in the quarter-finals of the -90kg.
In the Women Classic Style -70kg Beenish Khan was beaten by Zhakypeerkova Pertzat of Kazakhstan but she won the bronze medal for Pakistan because of her lost in the medal fight. The points were 2-0. Beside Beenish Khan bronze medal Humaira Ashiq also claimed bronze medal after losing to Badaghyuyew Lacyn on points 7-0 in the semi-final of the -50kg weight.
Ambreen Massih also won bronze medal after losing the medal fight against Miizamidin Kyzy Meertm of Kyrgyzstan by 5-3 in Women Style Classic -55kg and Muhammad Safdar bagged the fourth bronze medal on Wednesday in the medal fight he lost to Agamyrat Orazsahedow on points by 8-1 in -56 kg weight. This was Nosirov Khusan of Uzabekistan defeated Muhammad Saeed Anwar of Pakistan in Men's Classic Stuyle-55kg by 5-0.
In the Belt Classic Wrestling Muydinova Manzuraoy of Uzbekistan upset Maryum of Pakistan in the semi-final of the -70kg on point by 7-0, Gongor Purevbaatar of Mangolia defeated Zunair Bin Zahir of Pakistan in +100kg weight category in the semi-final. In the Mix Double Tennis Pakistan pair Heera Ashiq and Ushana Suhail were beaten by Indonesian pair - Ditriadi and Haliza by 2-0. The Pakistan mixed double team did some resistance against Indonesian pair but lost the first round match by 7-5 and 6-4.
In the Men singles second round Ahmad Chudhary failed to impress and lost the match against Wong Chun Hun of Hong Kong 2-0, the score was 6-1 and 6-4. The Pakistani weightlifter will start its journey from Thursday (September 21) when Furqan, Jamil Akhtar and Usman Amjad Rathore will appear in their respective weights.
Former World No. 2, three times Asian silver medalist and two times World Cup Team silver medalist Muhammad Sajjad moved to the quarter-finals after recording victory against Lin Tng Alan of Hong Kong in a marathon 5-4 frame battle of the Men's 6 Red Snooker Singles, lasted for three long hours.
In the first frame Sajjad recorded victory at 33-27 with break of 12 points. His rival Lin Tang also had 15 points break but he could not manage, after the winning the first frame Sajjad lost by 14-51, 0-41 with frame victory at 36-2. The other score of the frames were 4-44, 33-24, 14-34, 54-4 and 37-25.
Sajjad made his 19 break in the fourth frame, followed by 20 point break in 6th, and 37 and 17 breaks in the 8th and 9th frames while Lin Tang Ho Alan recorded his break in second frame (15), 19 in the third frame, 15 in the fifth frame, 16 and 23 breaks in the 6th and 7th frames.
In the second pre-quarter-final match Vahedi Soheil of Iran defeated Muhammad Bilal of Pakistan by 5-1, the score was 61-11, 44-8, 54-0, 46-16, 17-37 and 30-16. Iranian Vahedi was so impressive handed a shocking defeat to Pakistan Muhammad Bilal as he also recorded a break of 57 points in the first, 24 points in the second, 50 points in the third, 35 points in the fourths and 20 break points in the 6th frames.