Paris Olympics: Faiqa Riaz, Kishmala Talat eliminated from event

Pakistan's Faiqa Riaz and Kihsmala Talat have failed to qualify for the next rounds of their respective events at the Paris Olympics 2024 and have been eliminated from the mega event. 

Faiqa was unable to qualify for the next round of the 100-meter race as she finished sixth in the preliminary round of Heat 2. 

The 100-meter race event has four preliminary rounds and the top three racers from those rounds participate in the first round of the racing event. 

The five athletes with the next best timings in the preliminary round also qualify for the next round of the event. 

However, Pakistan’s Faiqa finished with a timing of 12.49 in Heat 2 of the 100-meter race and ended in the sixth spot, losing her chance to qualify for the next round.

As for Kishmala, she competed in the women’s 25-meter pistol event and despite having higher expectations, she placed 22nd overall.

Her scores in the precision series were 95, 99, and 99, while her rapid series scores were 98, 93, and 99. This gave her a total score of 579, which fell short of the top 8 needed to move on to the next round.

This marks the end of the road for Faiqa and Kishmala at the Paris Olympics 2024.

Pakistan’s athletes have been having a bad run at the Paris Olympics 2024 as two swimmers — Ahmed Durrani and Jehanara Nabi — and shooter Gulfam Joseph were eliminated from the event.

Pakistan has one more shooter who is yet to be in action at the Paris Olympics and that is GM Bashir who will compete on August 4.

The country’s hopes lie with renowned javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem whose journey in the Olympics will start on August 6th.