National Games: Sailing competition underway in Karachi
Ongoing National games are being held in Balochistan
In the sailing competition in the ongoing 34th National Games, the Navy lead in various categories after the first two days.
So far, six races have been completed in as many different categories in Karachi.
Navy leads in Men's Leisure Standard, Windsurfing RSX, Junior Windsurfing and 470 class.
In the Junior Laser Standard and Junior 470 class, the Navy and Air Force are in the same place.
The medals will be decided after three more races tomorrow at the ongoing event at Clifton.
Army is dominating the National Games with a big margin as they have won 88 medals in total as of now. WAPDA are second with 57 medals. The army have so far won 40 gold, 29 silver, and 19 bronze medals.
WAPDA are second with 25 gold, 16 silver and 16 bronze medals. While Navy are just two medals short of WAPDA as they have won 13 gold, 20 silver, and 22 bronze medals.
Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan are yet to open their account in the Gold category.
WAPDA and Army’s women's football teams have also reached the final in the women’s football category. Both teams will come up against each other today (May 21) in Quetta.
Earlier, Army maintained their dominance in the ongoing 34th National Games shooting events as they won three more gold medals. The Navy also bagged three gold medals in Friday's (May 19) events.
Army's Aqib Latif won the gold medal in men's 50m rifle prone. Aqib Latif also created a new national record with a score of 621.7
Navy's Muhammad Usman and Ghafran Adil won silver and bronze medals in the 50m rifle-prone individual event. Meanwhile, in the team event, the Navy won gold, Airforce won silver and Army won bronze medals.
In the women’s ten-meter individual air rifle competition, Navy's Mehek Fatima bagged gold, and Army's Kanza won silver. Meanwhile, in the women’s 10-meter team air rifle event, Army won gold, Navy won silver and HEC won bronze.
All three individual medals in the Olympic trap event were won by Army shooters with Lieutenant Colonel retired Aamir Iqbal winning Gold, and Lieutenant Colonel Farooq Nadeem winning Silver Medal.
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