Pakistan to participate in World Judo Championship

Published July 25, 2015
This picture shows Scotland's gold medalist Euan Burton (R) fighting Pakistan's silver medalist Shah Hussain Shah in their men's 100kg judo final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. — File photo/AFP
This picture shows Scotland's gold medalist Euan Burton (R) fighting Pakistan's silver medalist Shah Hussain Shah in their men's 100kg judo final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. — File photo/AFP

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will participate in the World Judo Championship, to be held at Astana, Kazakhstan from Aug 20 to 31.

A press release of the Pakistan Judo Federation (PJF) said four male and two female judokas will be selected in the first week of August.

Training camp for upcoming events will resume soon and foreign judo coach Sajjad Kazemi will join it from Aug 1.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2015

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