Five out of ten Pakistani athletes were eliminated at the Tokyo Olympics

• Shooter Gulfam Joseph is ranked 9th.
• Weightlifter Talha Talib is ranked fifth.
• From July 30th to August 4th, 5 athletes participated in the competition.

Of the 10 Pakistani athletes representing the country in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 5 were eliminated without winning any medals.

The first Pakistani athlete to be eliminated was the shooter Gulfam Joseph, who participated in the 10m air pistol shooting competition. According to the rules, 8 of the 36 shooters must be eligible for the final round. Gulm was tied with No. 7 and No. 8 shooters from China and Serbia, respectively, with the same score of 578/600. Due to a small difference, Gulfam was eliminated and finished the game in 9th place.

Mahoor Shahzad, who participated in the Olympics for the first time, failed to win a game. She was first defeated by a Japanese player, followed by England’s Christie, after which she was eliminated.

The third athlete to be eliminated was weightlifter Talha Talib. Talha Talib performed well in the competition, lifting a total of 320 kg. He kept the gold medal position until he finished fifth in the final round. He was defeated by Italian weightlifter Marco Zani, who won the bronze medal with 322 kg.

Swimmer Haseeb Tariq is participating in the preliminaries of the men’s 100m freestyle. He is ranked 62nd out of a total of 70 players.

Pakistani judo player Hussein Shah was defeated by Egyptian judo player Ramadan Darwish in the first round, shattering Shah’s hopes of winning a medal. Shah could only hold on for three minutes and nine seconds in the game. Shah is the son of Hussein Shah. He won the bronze medal for Pakistan at the 1998 Seoul Olympics.

After five athletes were eliminated, five others are still in the competition. Swimmer Bismillah Khan will participate in the 50m freestyle competition tomorrow.

On August 1, shooters Khalil Akhtar and Ghulam Bashir will participate in the 25-meter rapid-fire pistol competition.

Najma Parveen will participate in a two-meter race on August 2nd.

On August 4th, Arshad Nadeem will participate in the javelin competition. Arshad is the only Pakistani athlete to directly qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.