KARACHI: The Pakistan Olympic Association has finalised the list of athletes competing in 25 various sports during the upcoming Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou, China, from September 23rd to October 8th.
Pakistan will be participating in Archery, Athletics, Bridge, Badminton, Boxing, Cricket, Climbing, E-sports, Fencing, Golf, Hockey, Kabbadi, Karate, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Squash, Swimming, Tennis, Taekwondo, Table Tennis, Volleyball, Weightlifting, Wrestling and Wushu.
Some major sports from which Pakistan will be missing are Judo, Equestrian, Baseball, Football and Gymnastics. Pakistani athletes will miss participating in these sports due to funding issues and delays in confirming entries.
According to the list of athletes available to Geo, some renowned names are missing from their respective sports.
These include Wrestler Inam Butt, sprinter Mueed Baloch in Athletics, Weightlifter Nooh Butt and Hamza Khan — who recently won the World Junior Squash Championship in Melbourne.
Inam confirmed to Geo News that he didn’t appear in trials that’s why his name is missing while Nooh Butt’s absence is understood to be due to his conflicts with Weightlifting Federation.
Mueed Baloch’s name wasn’t submitted by his department to POA as Athletics Federation is suspended by the POA. While, for Hamza, it is understood that PSF had finalised the squad weeks before Hamza won the Junior Championship in Melbourne.
The Olympic Council of Asia had set July 15 as deadline for countries to finalise the contingent details.
Following is the list of athletes accredited for 19th Asian Games:
ARCHERY:
Idrees Majeed, Mohammad Nadeem, Israr ul Haq, Nighat Hameed, Mohamamd Safiullah Satti.
ATHLETICS:
Waqas Akbar, Rabeela Farooq, Tameen Khan, Farhan Illyas, Jaffar Ashraf, Muhamad Afzal, Abid Razaq, Sharoz Khan, Sohail Aamir, Sahib e Asra, Shajjar Abbas, Asad ur Rehman Khan, Mohammad Yasir Sultan, Ghazala Ramzan, Gohar Shahbaz, Arshad Nadeem, Mohammad Akhtar, Farhat Bano, Arooj Kiran.
BRIDGE:
Muhammad Zia Hai, Anwar Mumtaz Kazilbash, Shahab Sarki, Yousaf Jan, Rubina Agha, Samira Jimmy Fancy, Azara Raja, Farooq Ahmed Alvi, Arslan Mansoor, Farrukh Liaquat, Ghalib Ali Bandesha, Masood Mazhar.
BADMINTON:
Murad Ali, Irfan Saeed Bhatti, Ghazala Siddique, Mahoor Shahzad.
BOXING:
Zohaib Rasheed, Sanaullah, Mohammad Qasim, Fatima Zahra, Ibrahim.
CLIMBING:
Zaheer Ahmed, Mir Abuzar Faiz, Jannat Amani, Fazal Wudood, Iqra Jilani.
E-SPORTS:
Abdullah Sher Afridi, Muhammad Mahad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Uzair Ahmed, Falak Sher Memon, Hamza Khalid, Raja Muneeb Zaman, Shayan Asad, Muhammad Saleh Narejo, Uzair Ali, Daniyal Baig, Mohammad Hassan Chaudhary.
FENCING:
Zaheer Mushtaq, Zaima Khalid, Mujaded Awan, Sadia Nasir, Ali Saeeduddin, Mohammad Naeem Sadiq.
GOLF:
Syed Yashal Shah, Rimsha Ejaz, Salman Jehangir, Qasim Khan, Omar Khalid Hussain, Parkha Ejaz, Humna Amjad.
HOCKEY:
Zakarya Hayat, Usama Bashir, Muhammad Murtaza Yaqoob, Sufiyan Khan, Mohammad Ammad, Arshad Liaquat, Ahtisham Aslam, Mohammad Shahzeb Khan, Umar Bhutta, Rooman, Mohammad Abdullah, Akmal Hussain, Aqeel Ahmed, Rana Abdul Waheed, Abdullah Ishtiaq Khan, Afraz, Abdul Hannan Shahid, Abdul Rehman.
KABADDI:
Sajjad Shaukat, Waqar Ali, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Ramzan, Adil Hussain, Akhlaq Ahmed, Tehsinullah, Umair Khan, Usman Ahmed, Mudassar Ali, Muhammad Safian, Afaq Khan.
KARATE:
Sabira Gul, Saadi Abbas, Mohammad Awais, Fakhr un Nisa, Humayun.
ROWING:
Muhammad Adil, Muzamil Shahzad, Zahid Iqbal Khan, Asad Iqbal, Babar Khan, Amjad Baig.
SAILING:
Nadine Xerxes Avari, Mehboob, Raphael Javed, Zoya Asad Ali, Muzammil Hussain.
SHOOTING:
Mahak Fatima, Kashmala Talat, Zeeshan Farid, Usman Chand, Farrukh Nadeem, G M Bashir, Gulfam Joseph, Inam Haroon, Aqib Latif, Ghufran Adil, Usman Sadiq.
SQUASH:
Farhan Zaman, Sadia Gul, Mehwish Ali, Zaynab Hameed Khan, Nasir Iqbal, Noor Zaman, Asim Khan, Amna Fayyaz.
SWIMMING:
Mishael Hayat Ayub, Azhar Abbas, Mohammad Hamza Anwar, Amaan Siddiqui, Ahmed Durrani, Jahanara Nabi, Ameena Ameer Qadri.
TAEKWONDO:
Aqdasullah Qadeer, Mazhar Abbas, Arbaz Khan, Haroon Khan, Naqsh Hamdani, Naila, FatematuZahra, Hamza Omar Saeed.
TENNIS:
Ushna Sohail, Aisam ul Haq, Sarah Ibrahim Khan, Aqeel Khan.
TABLE TENNIS:
Perniya Khan, Muhammad Shah Khan, Haiqa Hassan, Hoor Fawad, Faizan Zahoor.
VOLLEYBALL:
Abdul Zaheer, Hamid Yazman, Farooq Haider, Murad Khan, Murad Jahan, Muhammad Hammad, Musawar Khan, Nasir Ali, Usman Faryad Ali, Mubashar Raza, Kashif Naved, Afaq Khan.
WEIGHTLIFTING:
Furqan Anwar, Abdullah Butt, Usman Amjad Rathore
WRESTLING:
Zaman Anwar, Inayatullah, Mohammad Bilal, Haider Ali Butt.
WUSHU:
Maira Karamat, Samreen Altaf, Abdul Rehman, Abdul Khaliq
Faizan Lakhani Faizan Lakhani is Deputy Editor (Sports) at Geo News.