{"id":1388,"date":"2023-08-20T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T11:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2023-08-20T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T12:39:09","slug":"three-pakistani-squad-players-win-medals-in-asian-junior-individual-championshipthree-emerging-star-pakistani-squad-players-have-made-the-country-proud-by-claiming-three-medals-in-the-ongoing-30th-asi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2023\/08\/20\/three-pakistani-squad-players-win-medals-in-asian-junior-individual-championshipthree-emerging-star-pakistani-squad-players-have-made-the-country-proud-by-claiming-three-medals-in-the-ongoing-30th-asi\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Three Pakistani squa<\/em>sh<em> players Win Medals in Asian Junior Individual Championshi<\/em>p<br>Islamabad (Arif mehmood khan)Three emerging star Pakistani squad players have made the country proud by claiming three medals in the ongoing 30th Asian Junior Individual Championship 2023 in Dalian, China.<br>According to the official announcement, Nauman Khan clinched the gold medal by defeating Ahmad Rayyan Khalil with a game score of 9\/11, 11\/8, 6\/11, 11\/3, 11\/9 in the U-13 category.<br>Ahmad Rayyan, the second finalist alongside Nauman Khan, gave a tough time to his fellow countryman in the final encounter but could not maintain consistency and ended up with the Silver Medal.<br>Another Pakistani young squad sensation, Abdullah Nawaz, also displayed a magnificent performance in the four-day marquee event in China, winning the Bronze Medal in the U-17 category.<br>Meanwhile, President of the Pakistan Squash Federation, Air Vice Marshal Kazim Hammad, congratulated the star squad players for their historic achievements in the mega event.<br>Kazim Hammad also lauded the efforts of the head coach, Farhan Zaman, for preparing the Pakistani emerging contingent for the Asian Junior Individual Championship.<br>It is pertinent to mention here that this is the second time within a span of a month that Pakistani squash players have made the country proud with magnificent achievements on different continents.<br>Last month, the Peshawar-born squad sensation, Hamza Khan, clinched the World Junior Squash Championship title in Melbourne by defeating Mohamed Zakaria of Egypt.<br>This historic victory marked the end of a 37-year-long wait for Pakistan, with Jansher Khan being the last player to bring home the coveted title in 1986."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}