PYF 2014;Pakistan won the Wrestling And Tug Of War events

Lahore: On the second and last day of the Pakistan-India Punjab Games, began with Arm-Wrestling contest at Al-Hamra Cultural Complex. The games are being staged under the banner of the Punjab Youth Festival.

Pakistan’s powerful and skillful Men’s And Women’s Arm-Wrestling Teams made it a one-sided competition when they clinched five out of six matches in different weight categories. In the first encounter of the day, Pakistan’s Zameer Sultan trounced India’s Balraj Singh 2-0 in 65kg category. The 75kg contest was won by Pakistan’s Ammad Butt, who overwhelmed India’s Tilkraj Mehra quite comfortably in two rounds. Pakistan’s Saifur Rehman Sulehria adopted aggressive approach in the third arm-wrestling match and overcame his opponent Dilbagh Singh within no time in 75kg plus class.

On women’s side, India’s Mandeep Kaur demonstrated handy technique and downed her rival Rabia Khalil from the host team in 60kg category. This was India’s only victory in arm-wrestling competitions. In next encounter, Pakistan’s Saadia Khalil had to fight hard to win her match against India’s Jasbeer Kaur in 70kg class. Jasbeer offered brilliant resistance and took her match to third round by winning the second. This was the only clash of the day which was contested for three rounds.

In the women’s third match, India’s Navneet Kaur failed to offer any degree of

fight against Tayyaba Khan of Pakistan in 70kg plus match. It is pertinent to mention here that all the three Indian women players are also members of their kabaddi team. “We don’t have any previous experience of Arm-Wrestling. It’s for the first time, we are playing Arm-Wrestling. Our main and actual expertise is in Kabaddi,” Navneet Kaur, a member of Indian Arm-Wrestling team, said in a statement later.

The Pakistani players kept on good show and also dominated Weightlifting events by winning three out of four bouts here at Alhamra Cultural Complex. In 105kg weight category, Mustaqeem Butt downed Harbajhan Singh while Ahzar Amir Butt defeated India’s Perthi Pal Singh in 105kg weight category. The only 94kg weight category title went to India as Pardeep Singh beat Anas Javed of Pakistan. The 56kg category title was won by M. Shahzad who outplayed Bophinder Singh.

 

Pakistan won the Tug Of War Event by 2-0. Indian team was consisted of Jaswandar Singh, Pargat Singh, Prem Singh, Balwandar Singh, Bahadur Singh, Kaldeep Singh, Tilack Raj and Balraj Singh while Yasir Abbas, Bilal Hussain, Sharafat Ali, Tayyab Raza, M Ashraf, Bilal Gujjar and Ahmad Nazir were the members of Pakistan team. Before the start of the event, Pakistan team management objected that Indian players had been wearing shoes. The objection was accepted and Indian players had to remove their shoes.

Pakistan players also proved their supremacy in the Mud-Wrestling as they outclassed India in the three competitions winning all their matches while fourth bout ended as a draw. In the first bout of 65kg category, Haider Ali defeated Ranko Pehalwan. M. Shafiq of Pakistan downed Kiran Sharma of India in the second bout of 75kg category. The third bout between Tahir Hussain and Inant Singh of India ended in a draw while M. Sadiq made it 3-0 in favour of Pakistan after beating Jagoot Singh downing him in just five minutes.