Punjab Sports Department will organize Khelta Punjab Pink Games athletics and boxing trials of Lahore Division at different venues of Nishtar Park Sports Complex on January 22 (Thursday). The athletics trials of Lahore Division girls will be conducted at Punjab Stadium while Body contact Center will be the venue of boxing trials. The trials of women’s biggest sports event Khelta Punjab Pink Games continued in all divisions of the province on the third day on the direction of Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar while Director General Sports Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry is supervising the trials of the mega event. Hundreds of female athletes featured in Lahore Division trials of volleyball, wushu and archery. The Lahore Division trials of wushu were conducted at Elite Training Centre, the trials of volleyball were organised at Nishtar Park Sports Complex Gymnasium Hall while Punjab football stadium was the venue of archery trials. Coordinator Sports Malik Anoosh Khokhar, Divisional Sports Officer Lahore Tariq Khanzada, District Sports Officer Tanveer Abbas also witnessed the trials proceedings. Around 150 female athletes appeared in volleyball trials, as many as 35 females took part in rugby trials, more than 30 girls attended wushu trials while over 25 girls appeared in archery trials. Expert coaches such as Yaseen Siddique and Saba Arshad (volleyball), Ambreen Iftikhar and M Sajid (wushu) and Aqsa Nawaz and Shoaib Riaz (archery) supervised the trials. Medical camps were also arranged at all three venues at Nishtar Park Sports Complex on the occasion of trials.
