Wapda honours CWG medallists

LAHORE: Wapda Sports Board on Wednesday honoured its medalists of Commonwealth Games (CWG) held at Gold Coat Australia with cash prizes.

Wapda that has tremendously contribution towards promotion of sports in Pakistan for the last 55 years, is providing the state of art sport facilities to its sportspersons and encouraging the players to its best.

Keeping the same perspective into account, WSB organised a ceremony at Wapda House to honour its players, who won medals for Pakistan in the 21st Commonwealth Games. Out of Pakistan’s one gold and four bronze medals in the Games, Wapda players secured one gold and three bronze medals for their country. Chairman Wapda Lt Gen (retd) Muzammil Hussain was the chief guest of the ceremony. The players and coaches were given cheques of given Rs 500,00, Rs 200,000, Rs 100,000, Rs 75,000 and Rs 50,000 respectively. Addressing the ceremony, Wapda Chairman congratulated the medallists on their performance in the Commonwealth Games. He expressed the hope that their players would continue to bring laurels to Pakistan in the international events.

Earlier, participants of the ceremony were briefed about Wapda’s role in national and international sports events. It is further briefed that Wapda, at present, are national champions in 32 sports and runners-up in 20 disciplines.