Pakistan’s Abdul Mueed Baloch has introduced one other honour to the homeland as he received a silver medal on the World Cadet Video games in Venezuela on Thursday.
Representing the Pakistan Air Pressure (PAF), the 23-year-old Baloch secured the medal within the 200-metre race, finishing the gap in 21.72 seconds.
The gold medal of the occasion was grabbed by a Venezuelan athlete who reached the end line in 21.69 seconds.
Baloch earlier this week received a gold medal within the 400-metre race by protecting the gap in 48.20 seconds.
Hailing from Karachi’s Shanti Nagar, Baloch is a nationwide champion in each the 200-metre and 400-metre classes.
Baloch, who was named the quickest athlete after successful the 100-metre race on the 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championship, has represented Pakistan in a number of worldwide occasions, bringing dwelling quite a few victories.
He additionally holds Pakistan’s nationwide file within the 400-metre race with a timing of 46.73 seconds.
In 2015, Baloch, a passionate footballer then, got here on the monitor for the primary time in his cleats on the Nationwide Teaching Centre. Baloch clocked 12.50 seconds within the Aman Tech 100m dash in February 2015 — his first stint at a contest.
Inaugurated on August 17, the fourth Worldwide Army Sports activities Council (CISM) World Cadet Video games are underway on the Fuerte Tiuna army base in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.
The cadets’ video games, first initiated in 2010, are an necessary complete occasion beneath the framework of the CISM.
