Pakistan Army has won the overall athletic trophy with 870 points, followed by Pakistan Wapda 828 and Pakistan Air Force 85 remained at third and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 76 points got fourth position.
Maria Maratab of Army was adjudged as the best athlete of the 33rd National Games. Maria Maratab with her four gold medals and a bronze become the top athlete who also broken the record of 19-year-old record of Olympian Shabana Akhtar in heptathlon. She is also become the leading athlete who won more than a single medal in the event. She won her first gold medal in the triple jump and covered the distance of 12.25m, which was new record in the National Games.
She secured the second gold medal in the long jump by covering a distance of 5.8m. She failed to get gold medal in the high jump and placed third by grabbing a silver medal in the event.
Pakistan Army 19 gold medals, 21 silver and 19 bronze medals with 6 gold, 7 silver and 11 bronze in the women event and 13 gold, 14 silver and 7 bronze medals in the men event. Wapda took second position on points with 22 gold medals, 19 silver medals and 11 bronze medals. Pakistan Air Force took third position with one gold, one silver and three bronze medals, followed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa one silver medals and four bronze medals.
Najma Parveen of Pakistan Wapda and Maria Maratab of Pakistan Army come up as the shining stars athletes when they claimed more than one gold medal in the ongoing 33rd National Games being in progress at different venues.
In the female hockey final Wapda outclassed Army in the final by 8-1 and clinched the gold medal, followed by Army and Railways got third position. In the third position match Railways defeated Punjab with Ramsha and Kainat scored one goal each.
In judo, Army claimed eight gold medals, one 1 and three bronze medal in the 33rd men and women judo event part of the 33rd National Games played at BISE Sports Complex Abbottabad. Army claimed gold medal in -50kg, open, -60kg, -66kg, -73 in the men and -40, -44kg, open weight, and silver medal in -48kg in the women event.
Wapda claimed four gold medals, three silver and two bronze medal. Wapda won gold medal in -55kg, -81kg, in Men and -48kg and -52kg in Women and silver medal in -71 Men and -40 and -44kg Women weight category.
Pakistan Navy got third position with three silver and five bronze medals. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa got two bronze medals in Judo. In the Basketball female Pakistan Wapda defeated Army by 103-84. Punjab defeated Railways by 66-45.
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