Khyber Pakhtunkhwa excelled of winning six gold medals, nine silver and six bronze medals in the National Youth and National Junior Athletic Championships recently concluded at Jinnah Sports Complex Islamabad. Talking to media men President KP Pakhtunkhwa Athletic Association and former gold medallist athlete Habib Ur Rehman Afridi here Wednesday said that despite presence of giants teams like Pakistan Army, Pakistan Wapda, Railways, PAF, HEC, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa got prominent position by securing 322 points.
He lauded the performance of international coaches of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Syed Jaffar Shah, Zafran Afridi, and Jibran for their dedicated efforts in polishing the hidden talent of the athletes during a month long camp. He said KP won four gold medals, one silver and two bronze medals in the Junior Category while two gold, eight silver and four bronze medals in the National Youth category.
In the shot put promising Zohaib won gold medal, Shahnawaz of HEC won silver, Nouman of Khyber Pakhtunkwha won bronze medal. In 4X400m relay KP won first position, followed by Punjab, and Railways got third position. In the 4X100m relay HEC won gold medal, KP and FATA won silver and bronze medals respectively. In the Youth KP's Aneeb Afridi won gold medal, Mujeeb won silver medal, and Muhammad Kashif won bronze medal. In the Javelin through Shahab of KP won gold, Paras Ahmad of KP won silver and Arbab Khan claimed bronze medals. In the 800m Paras John won gold medal, in 400m Hurdle Ahmad, Wajid in shot pur, Usama Nawaz in discus throw, Paras in 110m hurdle, Bilal in 200m, Paras John in 1500m, Abu Zar in Discus throw claimed bronze medals.