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About Asian Junior Individual Squash Championship 2024

Edition: 31st

Venue: Islamabad (Pakistan)

Participation: 12 member nations

Starting date: 25 June

Closing date: 29 June

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Explanation

Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Cup 2024

Edition: 30th

Venue: Malaysia

Winner: Japan (first title)

Runner-up: Pakistan

Starting date: 4 May 2024

Closing date: 11 May 2024

Participating teams: 06

Total matches played: 12

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• World Junior Squash Championship 2023

• Winner: Hamza Khan (Pakistan)

• Runner-Up: Mohamed Zakaria (Egypt)

• Venue: Melbourne, Australia

• Final held: 23 July 2023
• Note: This was Pakistan's first World Junior Squash title in nearly four decades as the last Pakistani player to lift this trophy was Jansher Khan, who won the title 37 years ago in 1986.
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Pakistani kids Nauman and Abu Bakr broke a 12-year-old record of the American duo in Guinness World Records.

Nauman and Abu Bakr broke the record of leap frog jumps. They jumped 58 times to break the record of 57 held by American adults.

Explanation

The Gilgit-Baltistan Ski Association team won the ice speed skating and 3rd ice hockey championship on January 23, 2021 during the ongoing winter sports festival at PAF ski resort in Naltar .

Explanation

Total teams

Six, five from Azad Jammu and Kashmir and one of Kashmiri Diaspora.

Match Venue

Azad Kashmir on April 1 next year.

Teams

1.                   Muzaffarabad Tigers,

2.                   Mirpur Royals,

3.                   Kotli Panthers,

4.                   Rawalakot Hawks,

5.                   Bagh Stallions

6.                   Overseas Warriors.

Official logo titled

"Khelo Azadi Say"

Explanation

Arshad Nadeem set a new Olympic record by clinching the coveted gold medal in the men’s javelin final

This ended Pakistan’s 32-year wait for success at the Games 

Throw: 92.97-m throw

Winning date: 8 Aug 2024

Arshad belongs to Mian Channu.

 Nadeem’s throw was Pakistan’s first individual gold medal

Note: It also shattered the previous Olympic record of 90.57m, set by the Netherlands’ Andreas Thorkildsen at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

The throw now stands as the sixth longest throw ever, and the best in the world this year.

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Explanation

Iga Swiatek won the French Open women's singles title 2024

Iga Swiatek is a tennis star from Poland.

French open is a tennis tournament held in Paris, France. 

French Open was started in 1891.

Note: French Open men's singles title 2024 won by Carlos Alcaraz

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Explanation

Pakistan women’s football team registered their first-ever win in AFC Olympics Qualifier by defeating Tajikistan. 

Date: 11 April 2023

Explanation

Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2016

Edition: First

Dates: 4 to 23 February 2016

Administrator: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)

Format: Twenty20

Venue: United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Winner: Islamabad United

Islamabad United won by: 6 wickets

Runners-up: Quetta Gladiators

Participants: 5

Matches: 24

Player of the series: Ravi Bopara (Karachi Kings)

Ravi Bopara made: 329 runs and 11 wickets

Ravi Bopara: English cricketer

Most runs: Umar Akmal (Lahore Qalandars)

Umar Akmal made: 335 runs

 Most wickets: Andre Russell (Islamabad United)

Andre Russell took: 16 wickets)

Andre Russell: Jamaican cricketer

Man of the match award winner: Dwayne Smith (Barbadian cricketer)