Humam Ahmad wins National Snow Hiking & Trekking title
Twelve years old Humam Ahmad of KPK secured first spot to win the National snow Hiking & Trekking at hill resort Nathiagali.
Total 300 male and female players from all across Pakistan took part in the National Snow Hiking and Trekking Championship played in three different categories under the supervision of Directorate of Sports KPK and Alpine Association KP.
KPK’s Humam Ahmad cleared a hectic distance despite heavily covered snow trekking and got first position. Humam Ahmad is also Pakistan’s no 1 under-11 squash player. Hanzala Zafar of Islamabad secured second spot and awarded with silver medal while Humam’s elder brother 14-year-old Haris got bronze medal.
In Women category Chaman Mushtaq of Islamabad recorded first position followed by Saba Ahmad of Sindh and Mahjabeen of Gilgit-Baltistan.
In the Men’s overall competition wherein 133 participants, Sajid Aslam of Azad Jammu and Kashmir took gold medal, Muhammad Riaz of Balochistan won silver medal and Junaid Ali of Islamabad got third position with bronze medal.
The female of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa comprising Laiba Ahmad, Kalsoom, Zohra, and Kainat recorded fourth, fifth and sixth position out of a total of 112 contestants.
The male of KP comprising Muhammad Bakhtiyar got overall fourth position, followed by Tahir Khan and Shams-ur-Rehman fifth position.
Abu Zafar Saqid graced the ceremony as a chief guest and distributed prizes and medals among the positions holders.
