Afaq, Tabassum, Shah in snowshoeing finals

Within the twelfth Particular Olympics World Winter Video games, Pakistan’s snowshoeing athletes Muhammad Afaq, Tabassum Nasir, and Shah Galoon have certified for the finals within the 100-meter race and the 4×100-meter relay divisioning race.

On Thursday, March 13, all 10 Pakistani athletes might be in motion in cross-country snowboarding and snowshoeing occasions. Within the last spherical of the 50-meter cross-country snowboarding race, Pakistan’s two skiers, Rovina Qurban and Muneeb Ur Rehman, will compete for medals. Each athletes can even take part within the 100-meter last race on March 15.

Within the 200-meter snowshoeing last races on Thursday, 4 Pakistani feminine athletes and three male athletes will compete, whereas Moazzam Iqbal might be in motion within the 800-meter race. The 100-meter and relay snowshoeing races might be held on March 14, whereas the 400-meter race is scheduled for March 15.

Particular Olympics Pakistan Chairperson Ronak Lakhani met with the Pakistani athletes and congratulated them on reaching the finals. She stated that this achievement is the results of 5 years of laborious work, and now the athletes have made it to the finals of the World Winter Video games. She urged the folks of Pakistan to hope for the success of those particular athletes.

In the meantime, Gonzalo Escobar from Particular Olympics Chile earned the primary medal of the Particular Olympics World Winter Video games Turin 2025!

Gonzolo, who traveled to Turin from Santiago, Chile, competed within the Superior Large Slalom Snowboarding Ultimate the place he completed in first place with a time of 1:40.370, virtually 4 seconds quicker than his closest competitor.

The snowboarding competitors started at Melezet in Bardonecchia early Tuesday, 11 March, morning with athletes taking to the slopes for warmups and rapidly stepping into motion. Escobar competed in Divisioning earlier within the day, ending the warmth with a time of 49.160 placing him within the D01 group—the highest degree of the snowboarding competitors for each women and men on the Turin Video games.

After exiting the beginning shoot, Gonzolo took off down the mountain with document speeds, making swift cuts as he maneuvered himself by means of the gates. As he neared the end, Gonzolo stayed in a tucked place gaining him as a lot tempo as he may earlier than crossing the end line to clinch the gold.

He was honored together with his medal at an award ceremony later within the day together with the medalist from the Intermediate and Novice Large Slalom Finals.

That is Gonzolo’s first World Video games expertise, however not his first worldwide competitors. In 2020, he competed within the Unified X Video games in Aspen, Colorado with Particular Olympics and bought a style of what it feels prefer to compete on a world stage.