Karachi native Naseem Hameed won Gold medal in SAARC games in 100 meters sprint on Feb. 7 and returned home to Karachi to a great welcome today. This gives her the title of fastest lady in a region which includes some of the most populous countries of the word viz India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The result of the SAARC Games Women’s 100m sprint event was as follows:
1. Naseem Hameed (Pakistan) 11.81 sec
2. Pramila Priyadarshani (Sri Lanka) 11.93 sec
3. Achala Shalika Dias (Sri Lanka) 12.12 sec
She returned to Pakistan today with hundreds of fans greeting her at the airport. In the following photo Naseem Hameed is seen with her parents on her return to Pakistan.
Dawn reports her talking to press and saying:
“I had forgotten the world for six months and trained really very, very hard under my coach Maqsood Ahmed to achieve this. It is a great moment for me to have brought glory to the country in my event after the poor showing by our national cricket team and especially since our athletics standards have been poor of late. I hope my performance will inspire the young athletes to become professionals.â€
I agree with her statement that this is one positive news for Pakistan in sports after the recent cricket debacle.
Photo Credits: Dawn and AP
@Nadir Punjani: Did you read the last of Facebook comments on page number 1? If not then please do, it answers your question. What exactly is your beef? Should we only celebrate women from parts of Pakistan where they are treated as commodities , bartered / traded and or “married” to Quran (to preserve the ancestral land which was acquired in return for shameless servitude to the British to begin with)?
happy news!
Naseem Hameed`s achievement is good news for a nation that has heard no good news since the T20 victory.Hope this encourages her to bring in many more medals.Hats off to her parents for letting her take part in sports and she did not let them down.The coaches of both naseem and sarah( the other gold medalist) also did their job well and have also been duly rewarded.Hope other girls will now also come out and take sports seriously and parents will also allow them to take part in this excellent extra curricular activity which is both good for mind and physique and produce athlete of international repute.If sports is made an industry people will follow the sportsmen and sportswomen more then they would follow politicians as in done in western countries which will lay the foundation for a healthy Pakistan.
Great Achievement! Makes me real happy……
And can I just say something little controversial? (pardon me for ruining the celebration). What caught my attention was not her gold medal but her time. She did it in 11.81 seconds. The world record is 10.9 seconds and Asian record is 11.0 seconds. Now I think if she uses the friction resistant kit comprising shorts and top, she can reduce her time by around .5 seconds or even more and thus is in with a real chance of having a medal in Asian Games.
Just a thought!
Well done! Great Woman from Pakistan and especially from Karachi… I beleive Karachi has the most talent in Pakistan…
BEST OF LUCK FOR THE FUTURE!!!!