KARACHI: National Rifle Association of Pakistan has announced the national shooting team for the Asian Games.
The team comprises G M Bashir, Gulfam Joseph, Kishmala Talat, Fatemeh Akif, Ghufran Adil, Zeeshan Shakir, M Akif, Usman Chand, Imam Haroon, and Ahmed Usman.
The manager of the team is Junaid Zulfikar while K B Anwer is the coach for rifle shooters and Qaiser Mehmood is the coach for pistol shooters.
In the National Games, G M Bashir, who has already qualified for Paris 2024, scored 589 in 25meter Rapid Fire Pistol which was considered exceptional by shooting fraternity while he set two new national records in the national shooting championship.
Kishmala Talat scored 582, a new national record, in sport pistol at National Games while she created two new records of 578 and 237.4 in the qualification and final rounds, respectively, of air pistol at national shooting championship. Zeeshan Shakir created a national record in the 3-position rifle with the score of 582 at National Games.
He was part of the Navy team that created national record of 1719 points in the said event at national shooting championship. Ghufran Adil set a national record of 630.5 in air rifle at national shooting championship.
It must be noted that the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) has given June 30 as deadline to national federations to submit their final entries by name for the 19th Asian Games slated to be held in Hangzhou, China, from September 23 to October 8.
A well-placed source in the POA told ‘The News’ that the POA has advised those federations who plan to field their squads in the Asian Games to send to the POA their final entries by name by June 30.
“We have to send to the Asian Games organisers our contingent’s travelling confirmation by July 15. Inside five days after we receive the final entries by name from the federations we will forward the details to the Games organisers,” the source said.
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