Najma Parveen became the first woman to represent Pakistan in two Olympic Games

Karachi: Pakistan’s top female sprinter Najma Parveen will become the first female athlete to represent the country in two Olympic Games. She will compete in the second of the 200 million meters in the Tokyo Olympics tomorrow. Played in.

Her warm-up match will start at 6:38 am Pakistan time.

Parveen’s goal is to improve her national record and qualify for the semifinals. The 31-year-old from Faisalabad won the Tokyo Olympics qualification with the university quota of the World Athletics Federation.

She is currently the best female athlete in Pakistan. She has won 43 national gold medals in the national records and national records in the women’s 200m, 400m and 400m hurdles.

Pavin won the silver medal in the 200m race in 23.69 seconds during the 2019 South Asian Games. This is the best time for a Pakistani female athlete in the 200m race.

She also won the gold medal in the 400 million hurdles competition at the South Asian Games. In the last National Games held in Peshawar, Najma won six gold medals, proving her dominance in athletics.

This will be her second time participating in the Olympics. She also represented Pakistan in the women’s 200m race in the Rio Olympics and failed to qualify after completing the race in 26.11 seconds. But since then, she has improved her schedule.

Approximately 42 athletes will participate in seven preliminaries. The top three and the next three best players in each preliminary round will be eligible to participate in the three semi-finals.

In the second game, Nagima will be tied with Daphne Hips, who is ranked 9th in the world with a personal best of 21.63, and Lisa Marie, who is ranked 10th in the world, and the latter’s personal best is 22.77. Among the seven athletes she warmed up, five had better personal records than Najima, and it seemed like a daunting task for her to get into the top three.

But the national athlete hopes to have a wonderful performance.