Pakistan & Asian Games News/Results

[MohammedA]

It's a real shame that gold medal boxer Haider Ali and the weightlifting champion didn't bother going to this event. I hope they had genuine reasons not to go!!



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Chinese goalkeeper Su Rifeng (on ground) kicks the ball from Pakistan's Muhammad Nadeem (7) while defender Hu Hui Ren looks on during the mens hockey match beween China and Pakistan at the 14th Asian Games in Pusan Septemeber 30, 2002. Pakistan won the match 8-3. REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim
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[MohammedA]

Naveen-Saleh duo help Pakistan

earn first Asian Games medal

The talented cueists clinch third spot in snooker doubles event to bag a bronze in Busan

By Syed Khalid Mahmood

KARACHI: The duo of Naveen Perwani and Saleh Muhammad clinched third position in the snooker doubles event to help Pakistan secure their first medal in the 14th Asian Games 2002 at Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday.

According to information reaching here, Perwani and Saleh clinched the bronze medal by overcoming the Chinese Taipei pair of Chih-Wei Ku and Kun-Fang Lee 3-1 in the play-off for third place.

Pakistan, it may be recalled, had also collected bronze medal in the snooker doubles event in the last Asian Games held at Bangkok in 1998.

India were also indebted to their cueists, Yasin Merchant and Rafath Habib, for bringing home their first medal of the Games. The pair of Merchant and Habib won the gold medal by defeating Marco Ka Chun Fu and Chi Wai Au of Hong Kong 3-1 in the final.

Perwani, who was only inducted in the Pakistan's doubles line-up after the last minute withdrawal of reigning national champion, Farhan Mirza, continued to show his fine form.

Perwani, who had won the 16th Latif Masters here the only week, complimented Saleh well as they trounced Junhui Ding and Long Jin of China 3-1 in the pre-quarter-finals.

They triumphed by identical margin in the quarter-finals, blowing the whistle on the Cambodian duo of Tola Neang and Sophanna Choin.

The Pakistan pair, however, was undone in the semi-finals by Hong Kong's Marco Ka Chun Fu and Chi Wai Au, who won the encounter 3-0. India won their semi-final tie against Chinese Taipei.

Pakistan, who had only taken part in snooker in the last edition of the Asian Games in 1998 when cue sports were first included in Asiad, will now be competing in three of the cue sports events in the 14th Asian Games. This time Pakistan will be featuring in billiards, snooker and 9-ball pool while they won't be taking part in Partie Libre, 8-ball pool and 3-cushion carrom.

A seven-member Pakistan cue sports squad, comprising of Saleh Muhammad, Khurram Agha, Muhammad Yousuf, Naveen Perwani, Imran Shahzad, Arifullah and Muhammad Hussain, has gone to Busan to try and secure maximum number of medals for Pakistan.

Pakistan will now be represented by Perwani, Saleh and Yousuf in the snooker team event. Yousuf will also be taking part in the billiards contest alongwith Hussain.

Khurram, Pakistan's number one all-round cueist, will be contesting the 9-ball pool event alongwith Imran and Arifullah.

[MohammedA]

With International Amateur Boxing Association president Anwar Chowdhry on ringside, Pakistani compatriot Ashgar Ali Shah narrowly beat Japanese light welterweight Yukio Fukaishi, 19-17.

[MohammedA]

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Pakistan bronze total at Asiad up to four now

By Gul Hameed Bhatti

KARACHI: Two more bronze medals came Pakistan's way on the fifth day of the 14th Asian Games in the South Korean port city of Busan on Thursday. One was in the snooker team event and the other went to Shahid Zaman, the losing semifinalist of the squash men's competition.

Earlier, the Pakistan pair of Saleh Mohammad and Naveen Perwani had opened the country's medals account by clinching third place in the snookers doubles. On Wednesday, Mohammad Akram won a bronze medal in the rowing single sculls final. Now, Pakistan have a total of four bronze medals.

In the other sporting disciplines, in which the national teams and players took part, nothing substantial was achieved. In fact, the results on Thursday in swimming, boxing, gymnastics, sailing, shooting, table tennis, tennis and volleyball were pathetic.

The silver lining is that the squash men's event may at least earn Pakistan at least a silver medal as Mansoor Zaman has qualified to meet Malaysia's Ong Ben Hee in the final. Here's how the various Pakistani players and teams fared in Busan yesterday, on Day 5 of the multi-nation, multi-sport extravaganza:

Swimming

•Women's 200m Breastroke Heat 1 -- Mehrunnisa Khan finished 7th out of 7, with a time of 3:15.84min.

•Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final -- Pakistan (Kiran Khan/Mahira Karim/Ayesha Tajwar/Sana Abdul Wahid) finished 7th out of 7, with a time of 4:40.84min.

•Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 2 -- Mohammad Khan finished 2nd out of 8, with a time of 56.91sec, but he was too slow to have moved into the finals.

•Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 4 -- Zulfiqar Ali finished 7th out of 8, with a time of 1:01.18min.

Billiards

•Snooker Team Quarter-finals -- Pakistan (Saleh Mohammad/ Naveen Perwani/Mohammad Yousuf) beat Philippines (Benjamin Guevara Jr/Marlon Manalo/James Al Ortega) 2-1. Semifinals -- China (Weiguo Pang/Junhui Ding/Long Jin) beat Pakistan 3-0. 3rd/4th Place -- Pakistan beat Malaysia (Ann Seng Ng/Fook Yuen Ooi/Tim Sam Chang) 3-0.

Boxing

•Bantanweight (54kg) Preliminary Bouts -- Talaibek Kadyraliev (Kyrgyzstan) beat 25-11.

Cycling

•Men's 169.4km Individual Road Race Final -- Haroon Rashid did not get going. Of the 28 competitors, only 22 finished.

Gymnastics

•Men's Individual All-Around Finals -- Mohammad Akbar with a score of 36.800 finished 18th and Tauqeer Ahmed (34.850) 19th out of 31 participants.

Rowing

•Men's Double Sculls Final A -- Azmat Javed/Zeeshan Butt finished 6th out of 6, with a time of 08:27.94min.

Sailing

•470 Men Race 1 -- Xerxes Byram Avari/Kamil Aziz Khan with a score of 11/11 finished 6th out of 8.

•Laser Race 1 -- Mohammad Yousuf 13/13 finished 7th out of 8.

•Mistral Heavy Men Race 1 -- Mohammad Tanveer 12/12 finished 6th out of 6.

•Optimist Boys Race 1 -- Mohammad Huzaifa Farooqi 21/21 finished 11th out of 11.

•Optimist Girls Race 1 -- Andrea Yasmin Rehman 17/17 finished 8th out of 9.

•Enterprise Open Race 1 -- Shehryar Arshad/Riaz Mohammad 9/9 finished 4th out of 5.

Shooting

•10m Air Pistol Men Qualification -- Irshad Ali with a score of 565 finished joint 31st, Mustaqeem Shah (562) joint 34th and Zahid Ali (551) 44th out of 48.

•10m Air Pistol Men Team Qualification -- Zahid Ali/Irshad Ali/Mustaqeem Shah, with a score of 1678, finished 11th out of 13.

•Trap Men Qualification -- Usman Sadiq (96) finished 28th, Munir Hussain (94) 29th and Mahmood Sultan (87) 31st out of 33.

•Trap Men Team Qualification -- Munir Hussain/Usman Sadiq/Mahmood Sultan finished 10th out of 10 with a score of 277.

Squash

•Men's Semifinals -- Ong Beng Hee (Malaysia) beat Shahid Zaman 9-6 6-9 4-9 9-7 9-4 (3-2) while Mansoor Zaman beat Mohammad Azlan Iskandar (Malaysia) 9-2 9-2 3-9 9-2 (3-1).

Table Tennis

•Women's Team Qualification -- Singapore (Jun Hong Jing/Xueling Zhang/Paey Fern Sharon Tan) beat Pakistan (Ghazala Roohi/Shabnam Bilal/Rahila Kashif) 3-0.

Tennis

•Men's Team 2nd Round -- Thailand (Narathom Srichaphan/Vittaya Sumrej) beat Pakistan (Rashid Malik/Aqeel Khan) 2-1.

Volleyball

•Men's Preliminary Round B -- Chinese Taipei beat Pakistan 3-0 (25-18 25-19 28-26).

[MohammedA]

Field Hockey: Pakistan beats Malaysia
(Updated at 1110 PST)
BUSAN, South Korea: Seven-time Asian Games champion Pakistan set up a semifinal with traditional rival India by beating Malaysia 6-1 Sunday to lead its group in the men's field hockey competition.

Pakistan, which has failed to make the Asian Games final since winning its last gold medal in 1990, played at a blistering pace despite the rain-affected waterlogged pitch causing problems for both teams.

[MohammedA]

Jang.com.pk

Boxer Mehrullah off to fine start at 2002 Asian Games

By Gul Hameed Bhatti

KARACHI: The Pakistan hockey team's 6-1 over Malaysia, the overwhelming of the same southeast Asian country in the kabaddi event and boxer Mehrullah's tremendous start marked the eighth day of competition for the Pakistanis at the 14th Asian Games at Busan in South Korea on Sunday.

But Pakistan's debut in the English Billiard competition was not quite heartening as the doubles pair missed out on a bronze medal. The shooting teams continued to finish near the bottom of the tables and the volleyball team bowed out with its third straight defeat and will now play only in matches to decide the fifth to eighth positions.

One small consolation for the volleyball players was that, for the first time in three games, they managed to clinch a set. At it was from the People's Republic of China, who won the last gold medal at Bangkok in 1998. Pakistan beat China 25-17 in the third set.

Papoo Pehlwan had mixed fortunes as a Pakistan wrestler was on view for the first time in the 2002 Asiad. He won and lost one each of his two encounters.

Here's how the Pakistani players and teams fared in various events at the Busan Asian Games on Sunday:

Billiards

•English Billiard Doubles Quarter-finals -- Mohammad Hussain Khalil/Mohammad Yousuf beat Seung-Chil Park/Wan-Su Lee (South Korea) 2-0. Semifinals -- Praprut Chaithanasukan/Mongkhon Kanfaklang (Thailand) beat Hussain/Yousuf 2-0. 3rd/4th place match -- U Kyaw Oo/U Aung San Oo (Myanmar) beat Hussain/Yousuf 2-0.

•Pool 9 Ball Doubles Pre-Quarter-finals -- G Khaled Al-Mutairi/A Aref Al-Awadi (Kuwait) beat Khurram Hussain Agha/Arifullah 11-8.

Boxing

•Featherweight (57kg) Preliminary Bouts -- Mehrullah beat Uranchimeg Munkh Erdene (Mongolia), Referee Stopped Contest (RSC), opponent outclassed.

Hockey

•Men's Preliminaries Group B -- Pakistan beat Malaysia (half-time 4-1). Pakistan's goal scorers: Mudassar Ali Khan (2), Kashif Jawwad (2), Mohammad Nadeem and Khalid Saleem one each.

Kabaddi

•Men's Team -- Pakistan beat Malaysia 29-7 (half-time score 11-4).

Shooting

•25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Qualification -- Zahid Ali with a score of 550 finished joint 28th and Mustaqeem Shah (546) 30th out of 33.

•50m Rifle 3 Position Women Qualification -- Nazish Khan with a score of 565 finished joint 22nd, Nadia Saeed (563) joint 25th and Urooj Zahid (537) 36th out of 37.

•50m Rifle 3 Position Women Team Qualification -- Nadia Saeed/Nazish Khan/Urooj Zahid with a score of 1665 finished 9th out of 10.

Volleyball

•Men's Preliminary Round B -- China beat Pakistan 3-1 (25-18 25-16 17-25 25-21).

Wrestling

•Freestyle 66kg Men's Preliminary 2nd Round -- Alireza Dabir (Iran) beat Papoo Pehlwan. Preliminary 3rd Round -- Papoo Pehlwan beat Galal Mohammed Saeed (Qatar).

[MohammedA]

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Pak boxers move towards Asiad semis

BUSAN: Pakistan were assured of two bronze medals as Asghar Ali Shah and Mehrullah breezed to the semifinals of the Busan Asian Games Boxing championship after beating their respective rivals here on Tuesday.

While Asghar and Mehrullah kept hopes alive for possible silver and gold, Kashif Mumtaz, another boxer from Pakistan, failed to win against Thai opponent.

Pakistan gained first success of the day in the light welter weight category in which Asghar defeated Philippines Brin Romeo on points 31:15 in the four round bout. Asghar dominated with forceful punching and his Filipino opponent found it hard to avoid the punishment.

The encouraging performance on part of Pakistani boxers was a sigh of relief for the officials of Pakistan Amateur Boxing Federation (PABF) present here after the ouster of their three boxers Mazhar Hussain, Imran Hafeez and Abid Ali in the preliminary round bouts.

Mehr raced through victory just in seconds, into the third round by knocking down Chinese Taipei's An Chun Chung with a fury of power bunches, in feather weight fight. In the first two rounds, Mehr displayed extra ordinary technique and game plan and his most of the punches accurately targeted Chung who was inferior in all department of the game.

Mehr won 20:5. In 71 kgs bout Pakistan's Kashif failed to face a brave challenge from Thailand's Suriya Prasathinphiai whose deadly punches forced the referee Muhammad Nur Potiyev to stop the bout, hardly two minutes into the first round.

[MohammedA]

Six Pakistan boxers qualify for Asiad semis

By Rashid Ali Siddiqui

KARACHI: The dream run of Pakistan's pugilists in the XIV Asian Games continues as six of them are just a couple of steps away from gold medals.

Though Pakistan have entered in 23 disciplines of the continental sporting gala, yet so far they have gained only two silver and five bronze medals. Six of the ten boxers though have kept the hopes of winning gold medals alive.

According to a message received from Busan, South Korea, on Wednesday, 161 pugilists from 32 countries are involved in fiercely-contested bouts for 12 gold, as many silvers and 24 bronze medals that are at stake at the Masan Gymnasium, 85 km away from Busan.

While Mazhar Hussain, Imran Hafeez and Abid Ali were beaten in the preliminary rounds and Kashif Mumtaz crashed out in the quarter-finals, six Pakistani boxers have punched their way to the semifinals. They include flyweight Nauman Karim, featherweight Mehrullah, light-welterweight Asghar Ali Shah and super-heavyweight Muzaffar Iqbal.

Nauman, the stout-hearted boxer from Pakistan Army, outclassed the Filipino boxer in the quarter-finals to cruise into the last-four stage. Mehrullah, the KPT boxer, got the golden chance of appearing in the Asian Games after his compatriot Haider Ali, the Commonwealth Games gold medallist, skipped the event. He first thrashed the Mongolian boxer in the pre-quarter-finals and then brushed aside An Chun Chung, the Chinese Taipai boxer, to set his eyes on the semifinals bout.

Olympian Asghar Ali Shah, another boxer from K PT, was too hot to handle for his opponent Romeo Brin from the Philippines as he reached the semifinals with a cakewalk 31-15 points victory. Earlier, he had outpointed a Japanese pugilist in the last-16 stage.

Muzaffar Iqbal knocked out a Krygyzstan boxer to move into the semifinals. Apart from the above four boxers, middleweight Ahmed Ali Khan and heavyweight Shaukat Ali Chhatta also won their quarter-final matches yesterday, and have moved into the semifinals to be played on Saturday.

A spokesman for the Pakistan Amateur Boxing Federation (PABF), expressing optimism over the success of the six Pakistani boxers in their semifinals and quarter-finals, informed that Prof Anwar Chowdhry, President PABF, who being the Chief of AIBA, the world's boxing body, made himself available in every bout in which Pakistani boxers were engaged and after their success awarded cash purse of US$100 immediately after their matches.

[MohammedA]

PAKISTAN WIN BOXING FLYWEIGHT SEMIFINALS.


Pakistan has dented South Korea's hopes of making a clean sweep of the ten gold medals up for grabs in the semifinals of six weight boxing divisions at the Asian Games on Friday.
Pakistani teenager Numan Karim barged into the Asian Games flyweight final by beating Kim Tae-Kue, 23-14.
The boxing competition has been plagued by criticism over the judging.
Rival coaches have complained that judges favoured Korean boxers in the competition on Thursday.
In other results, Japan defeated India 2-0 in the battle for the women's hockey bronze.
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[MohammedA]

11/10/02 SOUTH KOREA: BUSAN, OCT. 11 (YONHAP) - FOLLOWING ARE RESULTS FOR THE BUSAN.


Asian Games' boxing matches Friday at Masan Gymnasium.

Semifinal
Fly Weight(51Kg) Semifinal

Nouman Karim (Pakistan) - winner
KIM Tae Kue (Korea)

JONGJOHOR Somjit (Thailand) - winner
ZOU Gang (China)
Feather Weight(57Kg) Semifinal

JAFAROV Galib (Kazakhstan) - winner
SHIGHAN Yaser (Syria)
Mehrullah (Pakistan) - winner
CHEN Tongzhou (China)
Light Welter Weight(63.5Kg) Semifinal
Asghar Ali Shah (Pakistan) - winner
SHIN Myung Hoon (Korea)
KARIMZHANOV Nurzhan (Kazakhstan) - winner
SARSEKBAEV Bahit (Uzbekistan) (END).

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[MohammedA]

RESULTS OF BOXING EVENT IN 14TH ASIAN GAMES


South Korean Choi Ki-soo outclassed Palestinian boxer Monir Abukeshek on Friday to advance to the light heavyweight final at the Asian Games.

Choi, who will face Uzbekistan's Ikrom Berdiev in the 81-kilogram final, overpowered Abukeshek, with the referee stopping the light heavyweight contest at 1:08 of the second round. The South Korean led 17-2 on points when the fight was stopped.

Abukeshek was guaranteed a medal, Palestine's first of the Asian Games, before he stepped into the ring. The losers of the semifinals are each awarded bronze medals, while the winners go on to contest the gold and silver medals.

I'm disappointed I couldn't do better, said Abukeshek, who was given two standing eight counts by referee Rogetio Fortaleza of the Philippines. But I hope this does something for our nation. We have been in a miserable situation.

The 27-year-old Abukeshek, who lives in a refugee camp in the West Bank, said his training has been interrupted this year by fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinians at home.

He left the camp five weeks before his first child was born to prepare for the Asian Games.

It has been very difficult to train, Abukeshek said Friday. I can't just train at home and it's not possible to run outside of the camp.

Palestinian athletes are competing in 16 events at the Asian Games, which has drawn 44 countries from Japan to the Middle East

In other semifinal bouts Friday, Berdiev advanced when the referee stopped his bout with Aleksey Katulevsky of Kyrgyzstan with six seconds remaining in the third round. Berdiev was leading 21-7.

Kazakstan's Gennadiy Golovkin scored an 18-12 victory over South Korea's Song In-joon and will face Thailand's Suriya Prasathinphimai in the 71-kilogram final. Suriya defeated Sirojiddin Naimov of Uzbekistan when the referee stopped the bout at 3:35 of the third round with Suriya leading 36-29.

In the super heavyweight class, Rustam Saidov of Uzbekistan defeated Pakistan's Mirza Muzafar Iqbal when Iqbal was not able to continue with nine seconds left in the first round because of a bloodied nose.

Saidov, who was leading 5-4, will face Kazakstan's Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov in the over-91-kilogram final. Dildabekov, the gold-medal winner at the Bangkok games four years ago, defeated China's Zhang Junlong 28-19 in four rounds.

Asghar Ali Sha made it three wins in a row for Pakistan with a 23-13 decision over South Korea's Shin Myung-hoon in the 63.5-kilogram light welterweight class. He'll face Nurzhan Karimzhanov in the final after the Kazakstan fighter defeated Uzbekistan's Bahit Sarsekbaev 28-18 in four rounds.

In the featherweight semifinals, Pakistan's Mehrullah dominated the first three rounds of the 57-kilogram bout for a 30-18 victory over China's Chen Tongzhou and will face Kazakstan's Galib Jafarov, a walkover winner over Syria's Yaser Shighan.

Pakistan's Nouman Karim defeated South Korea's Kim Tae-tuk 23-14 in the 51-kilogram flyweight category to set up a final with Thailand's Somjit Jongjohor. Somjit outscored China's Zou Gang 18-15

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[aditya]

[_wicked_] hmmm nobody seems to be talking hockey here....I wonder why? [/_wicked_]

[_evil_laughter_] [/_evil_laughter_]

[MohammedA]

So what? India lost in the Champions trophy to Pakistan. Does this victory now mean India is Superpower and will wipe Pakistan off the map?

[osman]

Originally posted by aditya
[_wicked_] hmmm nobody seems to be talking hockey here....I wonder why? [/_wicked_]

[_evil_laughter_] [/_evil_laughter_]

I didnt follow the match, only know that it was a close call and india won it which makes a rare feat in the history of Pakistan vs India hockey matches. Well played looks like the indian hockey team is getting better.

[MohammedA]

If crashing planes was an Olympics event IAF would win GOLD every time. Jai Hind!!



IAF MiG-21 crashes in Assam


PTI [ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2002 07:05:17 PM ]

TEZPUR: A MiG-21 aircraft of Indian Air Force on Friday crashed in Assam's Sonitpur district but its two pilots bailed out safely.


Official sources here said the fighter aircraft of the Tezpur base on a routine sortie crashed near Khanumukh Rajgarh village at about 2.10 pm.


The aircraft fell on a thatched house in an agricultural field but the people inside escaped unhurt as they ran out when they heard the sound of the crash and saw the plane hurtling down in flames, the sources said.


Senior IAF officials rushed to the site of the crash and investigations were on.


This was the third aircraft to crash this year from the Tezpur base.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...?artid=24880171

[MohammedA]

Another 2 Pak boxers in the finals (middle and heavy weights).
This means 5 Pak boxers out of original 10 made it through to finals and possible gold.

[MohammedA]

Jang.com.pk


Pakistan pugilists storm into Asiad finals in style

By Rashid Ali Siddiqui

KARACHI: Pakistan's gold drought in the XIV Asian Games may end today (Sunday) when five boxers take the ring in the final bouts at Masan Gymnasium in Busan, South Korea.

Having lost gold medal hopes in hockey, yachting and other sports, the boxers are the last hope for the country to live up to their reputation. It was featherweight Haider Ali, who ensured the solitary gold for Pakistan in the recent 17th Commonwealth Games in Manchester while welterweight Asghar Ali Shah was the sole silver medallist among Pakistan's 178-member contingent that had participated in the 16th Commonwealth Games, held at Kuala Lumpur in 1998.

The fans back in the country are optimistic that the boxers would not let down the nation this time also and will snap up at least three golds.

The emotionally-charged Pakistani pugilists demonstrated this spirit in the semifinals last night when two more pugilists middleweight Ahmed Ali Khan and heavyweight Shaukat Ali Chhatta outclassed their respective rivals to cruise into the finals.

Beside Pakistan's five boxers, six boxers from Uzbekistan, five from Kazakhstan, a similar number from South Korea, two from Thailand and one from Philippines have also set their eyes on the gold medals.

Ahmed in the semifinals subdued the stiff challenge of a great boxer from the host country, Young Seang Moon, with his vicious punches and hooks. He rocked the opponent at the outset, cutting him to size with a 7-4 verdict in the first round.

However, before a partisan crowd, Korean boxer put his heart and soul in the second round. His lethal right jab jolted Ahmed and made referee making mandatory eight counts. Ahmed in a counter move let loose of flurry of power punches of right and left combination. He finished the round with board showing 14-3 decision in favour of Pakistani boxer. Ahmed punished Moon with full force in the third round and in only the first minute to take the points tally 24-8, forcing the Chairman jury to follow the rules and stop competition.

The story of the semifinal victory by other boxer Shaukat Ali was not different from that of Ahmed's. Asian champion Shaukat, who is an Army boxer from Faisalabad, also fought with vigour against Naser Alshami of Syria.

Shaukat, who is also an Asian Championship and SAF Games gold medallist, taught a harsh boxing lesson to his opponent from the very first round. He recorded 14-5 points in the first round and then 6-5 in second round. Finally, he demonstrated the prowess of his powerful left hand, crushing Syrian boxer with 6-1 points in the third round to outclass him with 26-11 points. At that stage, referee stopped the contest (RSC).

The other three boxers, who had already reached the final rounds, were flyweight Nauman Karim, featherweight Mehrullah and Olympian welterweight Asghar Ali Shah.

[osman]

This is probably only the start

The Hindu
Fails dope test

BUSAN OCT. 13. India found itself in danger of being stripped of a gold and a bronze medal today after distance runner Sunita Rani tested postive for the banned substance, nandrolone.

However, other athletes continued India's golden run in the Asian Games, winning four medals, including a gold by the women's relay team in the 4x400 m.

High jumper Bobby Aloysius and the men's 4x400 m relay team won silver while discus thrower Anil Kumar chipped in with a bronze.

[MohammedA]

Same thing happened in commonwealth games too recently. What is it about Indian athletes and failing dope tests?

[MohammedA]

A somewhat dissappointing end to boxing finals: Pak win 1 Gold, 4 silvers, 1 bronze.

Overall a good performance, but should have got more golds. Inshallah Pak will have the sense to invest in bringing young talent forward in a sport they could potentially do well in commercially and events-wise.

[MohammedA]

Jang.com.pk

Mehrullah does Pakistan proud by winning gold

By Gul Hameed Bhatti

KARACHI: Mehrullah vindicated the Pakistan boxing authorities' decision to bring him in as a replacement for the celebrated Haider Ali when, on Sunday at the 14th Asian Games being held in the South Korean port city of Busan, he claimed for his country the only gold medal of the multi-sport, multi-nation extravaganza that comes to a close today (Monday).

Featherweight Mehrullah completed a narrow but convincing victory over Kazakhstan's Galib Jafarov in the final yesterday. This win was through points, Mehrullah accumulating 26 as against his opponent's 21.

The 23-year-old Mehrullah, who comes from the Lyari slums of Karachi and is employed with the Karachi Port Trust (KPT), was an almost last-minute replacement for Haider Ali who had decided to opt out of the 2002 Asian Games.

Haider had only recently won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Meharullah, before leaving for Busan still had to establish his credentials at the senior level. His only major achievement until then was winning gold at the Cadet and Junior International Championship in 1998 in Karachi.

The other four Pakistani boxers who reached the finals in their respective weight categories all lost on Sunday. However, all four collected silver medals for the country. From eight medals in the morning, Pakistan's tally had gone up to 13 by the day's close, comprising one gold and six silver as well as six bronze medals.

Heavyweight Shaukat Ali, who was outclassed by Uzbekistan's Sergey Mihayilov yesterday, in fact improved upon his performance at the Bangkok Asian Games four years ago. In 1998, he had won a bronze medal fighting in the light heavyweight category; now he has bagged a silver.

At Busan, the Pakistani pugilists have won a total of six medals -- one gold, four silver and a bronze. Super heavyweight Muzaffar Iqbal Mirza, who took silver at Bangkok 1998, has had to be content this year with a bronze as he was injured during his semifinal bout on Friday and the referee had to put a stop to the contest.

Haider Ali, who participated in the flyweight category at the last Asiad, had returned home with a bronze. This year he was missing for 'personal reasons'. His replacement Mehrullah has though done extremely well by winning a gold medal. In the flyweight event in Busan, the teenaged Nauman Karim too performed with great credit, but eventually had to settle for a silver medal.

Pakistan's campaign at the 2002 Asian Games has now come to an end. In addition to the six medals in boxing, they won a silver medal each in squash and sailing (Enterprise Open), two bronze in snooker, and one medal each of the latter category in rowing, squash and kabaddi.

For the first time ever after the completion of an edition of the Asian Games, the Pakistan hockey team is returning home without a medal. On Saturday, they got defeated by Malaysia in the third-fourth place playoff. In 11 previous Asiads, Pakistan had won a record number of seven gold medals, in addition to two silver and two bronze.

Of the 23 sporting disciplines in which the Pakistani contingent took part -- there were in all 38 events at Busan -- they won medals in only six. Pakistani players made their debut in several sports at the Asian Games level, without making many ripples though, but the exposure must have done them much good.

The martial arts of judo, karatedo, taekwondo and wushu had representation by Pakistani athletes for the first time. Bodybuilding has been introduced in the Asiad as a medal-winning sport, and Pakistan sent two of its best.

The performance of the players in athletics, cycling, football, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling was overall very poor. Hockey was a big disappointment but the boxers finally managed to wipe off the tears with their fine display.

Here's how the various Pakistan players and teams fared at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, on the competition's 15th day on Sunday:

Boxing

•Flyweight (51kg) Final -- Somjit Jongjohor (Thailand) beat Nauman Karim 26-7.

•Featherweight (57kg) Final -- Mehrullah beat Galib Jafarov (Kazakhstan) 26-21.

•Light Welterweight (63.5kg) Final -- Nurzhan Karimzhanov (Kazakhstan) beat Asghar Ali Shah 19-15.

•Middleweight (75kg) Final -- Utkirbek Haydarov (Uzbekistan) beat Ahmed Ali Khan, Referee Stopped Contest (RSC), Outclassed.

•Heavyweight (91kg) Final -- Sergey Mihayilov (Uzbekistan) beat Shaukat Ali, Referee Stopped Contest (RSC), Outclassed.

Taekwondo

•Men's Heavyweight (+84kg) 1st Round -- Byashim Rozyev (Turkmenistan) beat Mohammad Hanif 4-1.

Wushu

•Men's Changquan Three Events Combined Final -- Usman Ahmed (score of 8.26) finished 17th out of 17. In the first and second rounds, he had scores of 8.31 and 8.50, respectively, and that made his overall aggregate 25.07.

[H Khan]

Originally posted by MohammedA
Jang.com.pk

Mehrullah does Pakistan proud by winning gold

By Gul Hameed Bhatti

This person happenes to be my first cousin along with his four other brothers and one of them was a Sword of Honor at PMA, and now is a one star general.

[Behjat]

Salaam,

Mubarak to all well-wishers of Pakistan for Mehrullah's win. And Personal mubarak to HKhan sahib for his cousin's victory. Masha'Allah, well done !

[MohammedA]

Originally posted by H Khan


This person happenes to be my first cousin along with his four other brothers and one of them was a Sword of Honor at PMA, and now is a one star general.

Mubarak to your cousin and to yourself! I saw a bit of the fight - he's a very skilled boxer.

[Rafaqat]

Khan sahib...bohot bohot Mubarak ..Meher Ullah ko aur ap ko bhi.

rafaqat