Pakistan’s Zainab Rizwan on the rostrum after profitable gold within the 50+ age class throughout the Asian Street Biking Championships in Thailand. — Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan added two extra medals to its tally on the Asian Street Biking Championships in Thailand, with Rabia Gharib and Zainab Rizwan securing podium finishes within the girls’s masters highway race occasions.
Rabia Gharib received gold within the 50+ age class, finishing the 42.8 km race in 1 hour, 18 minutes, and 21 seconds. She was the one participant in her age group to complete the race, which made her eligible for the highest honour.
In the meantime, Zainab Rizwan claimed bronze within the 40-44 age class, ending her race in 1 hour, quarter-hour, and 13 seconds.
This was Zainab’s second bronze of the championships, having earlier completed third within the particular person time trial (ITT) in her class. Rabia had additionally beforehand received silver within the ITT occasion for her age group.
Earlier, Pakistan’s Ali Illyas had received the gold medal within the males’s masters ITT occasion. Nonetheless, in males’s elite competitors, Ali Illyas completed fifteenth.
