34th National Games: Army's men and women steal the show in Taekwondo khyrougi event.

QUETTA -- Keeping its overall supremacy in the 34th National Games, the Army team also excelled in the Taekwondo event of the Games in Quetta by securing various gold and silver medals in various categories of the Khyrougi event.

In the Men's Khyrougi event of -54 kg, Shahbaz of Airforce won the Gold medal to secure first place (2-0) while Army's Abu Bakar won the silver medal to secure second place and HEC Hassan secured the bronze to win third place in the contest. Samra won fourth place.

In the -58 kg Men's Khyrougi contest, Army's Haroon Khan won the Gold medal (2-0) while Air Force's Ali Hassan got the Gold medal, and Baluchistan's Nisar Ahmed secured the bronze medal. Noorullah of Railway got fourth place.

In the Men's -87kg category, Army's Hamza Omar secured the Gold medal to win first place (2-0) while Wapda's Waqar Ali Shah secured the silver medal, and the third position was won by Sindh's Badshah Khan, who secured a bronze medal in this contest. KPK's Tariq Khan won fourth place.'

In the Men's -63kg category, Army's Arbaz won a Gold medal to secure first position (2-1) while PAF's Fareed won a Silver medal to be placed at No. 2 and HEC's Shiraz won a bronze medal.

Army was also impressed in the women's categories contest and Arms Eesha Safdar won the gold medal (2-0) to secure first place in the Women's Khyrougi's -46 kg contest. HEC's Rovina got silver medal to secure second place while Balochistan's Asif Ali secured bronze to win third place in this category...

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