KARACHI: Pakistan’s Safeer Abid clinched a gold medal in the 10km time trial race of the cycling event of the 16th Special Olympics World Games in Berlin on Sunday.
Safeer completed the 10km distance in 23 minutes and 02.02 seconds.
Pakistan won a total of 10 gold medals in the Games, which concluded on Sunday.
Safeer from Karachi said that he has participated in the World Games for the first time, for which he had been preparing for the last two years.
“I have passion to win more medals for Pakistan in the upcoming international events,” he said.
In the 500m time trial race, Madeeha Tahir of Pakistan won the silver medal by covering the distance in 1 minute and 14.15 seconds, while Amina Arshad won the bronze medal by covering the distance in 1 minute and 16.82 seconds.
In the final of the futsal event, Oman won the gold medal by defeating Pakistan by 6-3 goals. Pakistan finished second with the silver medal.
Pakistan stood fourth in women's doubles, men's singles and unified men's doubles of the tennis event.
In the Bocce team event, Pakistan's Mahnoor, Simran Mahesh Lal, Jamilur Rahman and Farhan Aslam won the silver medal after defeating Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Farhan Aslam won bronze medal in men's singles and Mahnoor won bronze medal in women's singles.
Earlier, Pakistan’s Muhammad Luqman and Habibullah clinched gold medals to increase the country’s gold medals tally.
Luqman bagged gold in the 100m race by clocking 15.21 seconds of timing. He also won a silver medal in the long jump.
Meanwhile, in powerlifting, Habibullah won gold in the 83 kilogramme deadlift. He also won silvers in squat, bench press and in combined weight.
Mirwaiz won silver in the 3,000m race. He completed the distance in ten minutes and 11 seconds.
Pakistan hockey team won bronze by beating Paraguay 3-2 in the game for the third place. This is the first time that Pakistan is featuring in hockey.
— Additional input from The News
Faizan Lakhani Faizan Lakhani is Deputy Editor (Sports) at Geo News.