Zaheer, Hassan, Aman, Sajid win National Rock and Sport Climbing Championships 2019
Zaheer Ahmed secured first spot of sport climbing open category of National Rock and Sport Climbing Championships 2019 in Islamabad.
Alpine Club of Pakistan in collaboration with National Mountaineering and Climbing Federation organized National Rock and Sport Climbing Championships in Islamabad.
Teams from Balochistan, Sindh, KP, Punjab, Islamabad, SNGPL participated in the event.
The competitions held in the category of Rock Speed, Sport Speed and Lead. The teams were classified into age groups as per standards of the International Sport Climbing Federation to encourage youth and junior climbers to compete and prepare for higher level of competitions.
In sport climbing open category Zaheer Ahmed secured the first spot while Sajid Aslam stood 2nd and Mushahid Shah finished at 3rd.
In junior Hassan Faiz took first position, Hanzalla Hussain 2nd and Abu Huraira third. In Youth A-Category Abu Zar stood 1st, Umar Bilal 2nd and Ayaz Kassi 3rd.
In girls category Aman Jannat stood 1st, whereas other girls could not qualify for 2nd and third position due to falling.
In rock climbing open category, Sajid Aslam won Gold, Zaheer Ahmed silver and Mushahid Shah bronze medals.
The climbers from across the country enjoyed unique experience of climbing and learning from senior climbers who have experience of training and competing at Asian and World Climbing Championship. Winners of various categories also appreciated efforts of ACP to hold such events for girls and requested parents to encourage their daughters to join this emerging sport.
However, they wanted to develop more climbing facilities to promote sport climbing in the country.
Malik Mehrban Ali was the chief guest while Kacho Imtiaz Hussain the guest of honour. They distributed medals among the winners and appreciated the performance of athletes and role of Alpine Club of Pakistan in promotion of climbing in the country.
Abu Zafar Sadiq, President, Karrar Haideri, Secretary, Akram Awan, Zubair Farooqui, Faizi Awan and Ayaz Ahmed Shigri and other members of the Executive board of ACP were also present on the occasion.
