22,907 athletes featuring in KP U-21 Games 2020
The pool of the U-21 Games has been widened up to all 104 tehsils of 32 districts across KP including 25 tehsils and 7 districts in the 4th KP U-21 Games 2019 being held in Nishtar Sports Hall, Peshawar.
A record number of 22,907 athletes of 104 Tehsils of 32 districts including the merger tribal areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are participating in the 4th KP U-21 Games 2019 being held in Nishtar Sports Hall, Peshawar.
The pool of the U-21 Games has been widened up to all 104 tehsils of 32 districts across KP including 25 tehsils and 7 districts of the merger tribal areas and age the limit has been changed to U-21.
The cash prizes have been doubled from last year.
The gold medal winners of each discipline will be awarded Rs 200,000, silver medalist Rs 100,000 and third position holders Rs 50,000 instead of Rs 50,000, 30,000 and 20,000. In the second phase at district level, there will be 10 male and 7 female games.
A total of 3616 male players would take part in hockey, table tennis, judo, karate, taekwondo, wrestling, basketball, gymnastic, wushu and weightlifting and 2624 female will participate in volleyball, netball, athletics, tug of war, badminton, table tennis and cricket.
In the third phase at regional level, there will 2200 players taking part in 14 male and 10 female games. The male games comprise of baseball, handball, tennis, archery, futsal, handball, swimming, cycling, snooker, full contact karate, bodybuilding, boxing, squash and chuck ball.
Secretary Sports, Tourism, and Youth Affairs Kamran Rehman was chief guest on the occasion, who formally inaugurated the logo and trophy of the event.
MD TCKP Junaid Khan, Additional Secretary Tariq Sultan, DG Sports Asfandyar, former world champion Qamar Zaman, former international athletes Habib Ur Rehman, Bahre Karam, Director Sports Female Games Miss Rashida Ghaznavi, players and a large number of spectators were also present.
