Waleed Aziz seals 1st Blind Archery Championship 2019 title
Waleed Aziz clinched the title in the 1st Blind Archery Championship 2019, which concluded here at Liaqat Bagh Sports Complex Rawalpindi.
Waleed Aziz clinched the title in the 1st Blind Archery Championship 2019, which concluded successfully here at Liaqat Bagh Sports Complex Rawalpindi.
Waleed Aziz lifted the title by scoring 396 points followed by Tanveer Ahmed (374 points) and Abdul Waheed (300 points). M Zahid Abbasi earned 230 points and M Suleman 160 points to finish fourth and fifth.
District Sports Officer Rawalpindi Malik Waqar Hussian graced the closing ceremony as chief guest and he, along with Rao Asif Jabbar and Muhammad Ejaz, distributed prizes among the players.
Rawalpindi District Sports Department and Rawalpindi Division Archery Association conducted the championship. It was due to sheer efforts by archery coach Muhammad Ijaz, who made the dream possible for the blind archers of the city as he played instrumental role in promoting the game amongst the blinds and also for the special persons.
Total five blind archers participated in the event, despite being handicapped, they displayed wonderful skills and used extraordinary techniques to amuse the spectators and were widely applauded by them.
Speaking about the Andorra International Visually Impaired Archery Championship 2019, to be held in Andorra from September 25 to 30, he said we had been going through intensive training at Sports Complex, Rawalpindi.
A 15-day Blind Archery training camp was organized for the preparation of International Visually Impaired Archery 2019" Tanveer said.
Tanveer said he along with Waleed Aziz, Abdul Waheed would feature in the mega event while Muhammad Ijaz and Muhammad Waqas would accompany the team, as coach and manager, respectively.
"Teams from France, United Kingdom, USA, Spain, Andorra, Italy and Ukraine have confirmed their participation in the International Visually Impaired Archery," he said.
