Pakistan’s Faiza Nasir and Naheen Khan won the gold medal in the badminton women’s doubles unified event of the 16th Special Olympic World Games.
In the badminton event played at Messe Berlin, Pakistani players won the gold medal by defeating Uzbekistan by 21-5 and 21-17 points, Malaysia by 21-14 and 21-6 and Krugs Republic by 21-12 and 21-13. What is your name?
On this occasion, Faiza Nasir and Naheen Khan said that we are very happy that our hard work paid off and we were able to win the gold medal for our country, our coaches played an important role in our success.
He added that we will try our best to maintain this streak of success in future events as well.
Head coach Mutahir Sohail and coach Qamar Ali Mona of Faiza Nasir and Naheen Khan from Lahore said that both the players were busy preparing for the World Games for the last 2 years.
In this regard, he also participated fully in the training camps organized by Special Olympics Pakistan in Karachi and Islamabad.
Meanwhile, in the badminton men’s unified doubles event, Noshiwan Arif Raja and Talha Asif of Pakistan won the silver medal after defeating Paraguay 21-18 and 21-12 and Macau 21-12 and 21-16.
Against Hong Kong, Pakistan faced defeat with the margin of 21-16 and 21-18.
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