ISLAMABAD
\nPakistan athletes took a flying start to the Combaxx Asian Open Taekwondo Championship which started here at the Pakistan Sports Complex on Wednesday.
\nThe hosts dominated the proceedings winning nine gold medals in the Poomsae discipline, out of a total 10, while one was clinched by Nepal.
\nIn Poomsae\u2019s U-30 mixed pair event, Pakistan\u2019s Flower Zaheer and Anas claimed gold while Ammar and Fatima won silver. Shafi and Ulma took bronze and the fourth spot went to Zain Hasan and Latif.
\nIn the mixed pair of over-30 category, Ali and Shafqat grabbed gold. Ali and Bashir came second, Changaizi and Kausar were third while Farhan and Hajra ended fourth.
\nPakistan\u2019s Qadeer, Waheed and Hussain won gold in the men\u2019s under-30 team event. Shehzad, Didar and Ahmed got silver; Khalid, Abbas and Ayub won bronze and Tariq, Gul and Jameel secured fourth spot.
\nHussain, Mumtaz and Ali of Pakistan clinched the men\u2019s over-30 team title. They were followed by second-placed Mehmood and Waqas; Ali, Saleem and Akhtar were third. Saudi Arabia\u2019s Salman Ali Al-Albane, Al-Madali and Al-Abbas took fourth position.
\nMen\u2019s Under-40 individual event was secured by Pakistan\u2019s Shahbaz Ahmed. Saudi Arabia\u2019s Muhammad Ali Al-Abbas came second, Pakistan\u2019s Mudassar Hussain third while Salman Ali Al-Albane finished fourth.
\nNepal\u2019s Ashmin Raut won gold in the men\u2019s Under-30 individual event. He was followed by Pakistan athletes Aqdusullah (silver) and Hasan Alam (bronze). Ahmed Shahzad got fourth place.
\nOn the women\u2019s side, Mehru-Nisa earned the under-40 individual title.
\nPakistan\u2019s Aqsa Shafaqat won silver and Mahdiyeh Oghbaei of Iran took bronze. Pakistan\u2019s Hajira Nawab came fourth.
\nIn the women\u2019s under-30 individual event, Naila of Pakistan earned gold while her compatriots Kinza Fatima and Izha Rehman sealed silver and bronze, respectively.
\nYamna Binte Khalid, also, of Pakistan, occupied the fourth position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Pakistan athletes took a flying start to the Combaxx Asian Open Taekwondo Championship which started here at the Pakistan Sports Complex on Wednesday. The hosts dominated the proceedings winning nine gold medals in the Poomsae discipline, out of a total 10, while one was clinched by Nepal. In Poomsae\u2019s U-30 mixed pair event, Pakistan\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n