Pakistan’s Hamza Iqbal Raja has won a bronze decoration for Pakistan in tenth Commonwealth Karate Championship being played at Birmingham.
Hamza, who hails from Azad Kashmir, was contending in men’s – 84 classification session.
He got going his excursion to Bronze with prevail upon India’s Vivek Teja Cherupalli in first round. The Pakistani Karateka took out his Indian rival convincingly with score of 8-0.
Notwithstanding, in quarter last challenge Hamza went down 7-2 against England’s Joe Kellaway.
Following loss in quarter last, Hamza’s possibility winning a decoration stayed alive and he entered in Repechage round.
He crushed Wales’ Nathan Preece 11-5 to fit the bill for the bronze award session where he confronted Demetris Demetriades of Cyprus.
In the award challenge, the Pakistani Karateka was on top of his structure. The Cypriot karateka additionally showed the absolute best abilities however it wasn’t sufficient to handle youthful Pakistani competitor who won the challenge with score of 8-5.
Pakistan’s other Karateka in the title Saadi Abbas wasn’t in his best structure and completed at fifth spot.
Saadi had got a bye in first round yet went down 5-3 against Australia’s Mithcell Durham in quarter last. He figured out how to win his most memorable repechage battle against Canada’s Nicholas Patrick 4-0 yet in the bronze decoration challenge, he was beaten by India’s Aman Kumar 4-1.
