The twelfth Particular Olympics World Winter Video games, held in Turin, Italy, have come to an finish.
The following World Winter Video games will happen in Chile.
In the course of the closing ceremony, the World Winter Video games torch was extinguished, and the Particular Olympics flag was handed over to Emilia Ríos, the Subsecretary of Sports activities for the Republic of Chile, the host nation for the subsequent video games.
The World Winter Video games lasted for eight days, with practically 1,500 athletes from 103 international locations taking part.
The closing ceremony featured a musical program that delighted the athletes.
Regardless of the continuing snowfall within the stadium, they enthusiastically carried out varied dances and exchanged jackets, badges, and souvenirs.
The Pakistani contingent additionally participated within the occasion with nice enthusiasm. Alongside Particular Olympics Pakistan Chairperson Ronak Lakhani and officers, the athletes sang patriotic songs, together with “Jeevay Jeevay Pakistan.”
The occasion concluded with a spectacular fireworks show.
The nationwide contingent will return to Pakistan on Monday morning by way of a non-public airline, touring by way of Abu Dhabi.
Beforehand, on the penultimate day of the video games Pakistan’s Muneeb Ur Rehman gained the gold medal.
Mongolia’s Amarjargal secured the silver, whereas China’s Mingjun Hong took the bronze.
Within the males’s 400-meter snowshoeing race, Abdul Saboor from Pakistan clinched the gold medal, whereas Romania’s Lonut Petrisor completed second and Macau’s Chi Fong took third place.
Within the ladies’s 400-meter snowshoeing race, Pakistan’s Minal gained the gold medal, adopted by Latvia’s Adriana Maleca in second place and Chinese language Taipei’s Yi Jhen Chen in third.
Pakistan completed the occasion with a complete of 11 medals, together with 6 gold, 3 silver, and a couple of bronze.
Chairperson of Particular Olympics Pakistan, Ronak Lakhani, congratulated the athletes, coaches, Head of Delegation Farkhanda Jabeen, the social and media division’s Taha Tahir and Saad Asif, group physician Bilal Mateen, and SOP sponsors.
She praised the outstanding achievements of the Pakistani athletes, highlighting their perseverance and nationwide spirit regardless of the freezing climate in Turin.
She expressed confidence that the athletes would proceed their successful streak in future worldwide occasions.
Earlier, Pakistan additionally took a silver medal in ladies’s 100 x 4 relay within the snowshoeing occasion.