Pakistan at the 2022 Asian Games explained

Noc:	PAK
Nocname:	Pakistan Olympic Association
Year:	2022
Date:	–
Games:	Asian Games
Location:	Hangzhou
Competitors:	189 in 24 sports
Flagbearer:	Nida Dar^[1]
Gold:	0
Silver:	1
Bronze:	2
Rank:	31
Appearances:	auto
Website:	www.nocpakistan.org

Pakistan competed at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, which was held from 23 September 2023 to 8 October 2023. Originally, the event was scheduled to held in September 2022^[2] but due to COVID-19 pandemic cases rising in China the event was postponed and rescheduled to 23 September to 8 October 2023.^{[3] [4]}

Pakistan sent a delegation of 189 athletes (comprising 136 male and 53 female) across 24 sports, along with 72 officials to the event. As on 1 October 2023.^{[5] [6] [7]}

Kishmala Talat won Pakistan its first ever Asian Games medal in shooting.^[8]

Pakistan only pathetically won three medals at these games, the fewest it has ever won at the Asian Games.^[9]

Competitors

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	3	1	4
Athletics	13	6	19
Badminton	2	2	4
Boxing	3	1	4
Bridge	8	3	11
Cricket	15	15	30
Fencing	1	0	1
Field hockey	18	0	18
Golf	3	2	5
Kabaddi	12	0	12
Karate	2	2	4
Rowing	5	0	5
Sailing	3	2	5
Shooting	8	2	10
Sport climbing	3	2	5
Squash	4	4	8
Swimming	4	3	7
Table tennis	2	3	5
Taekwondo	4	1	5
Tennis	2	2	4
Volleyball	12	0	12
Weightlifting	3	0	3
Wrestling	4	0	4
Wushu	2	2	4
Total	136	53	189

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medals by sport
Sport	width=60style="background:gold;"	Gold	width=60style="background:silver;"	Silver	width=60style="background:#c96;"	Bronze	width=80	Total
Squash	0	1	0	1
25px Kabaddi	0	0	1	1
Shooting	0	0	1	1
Total	0	1	2	3

Medals by gender

Medals by gender
Gender	width=60 style="background:gold;"	Gold	width=60 style="background:silver;"	Silver	width=60 style="background:#c96;"	Bronze	width=80	Total
Male	0	1	1	2
Female	0	0	1	1
Mixed/Open	0	0	0	0
Total	0	1	2	3

Medals by day

Medals by day
Day	Date	width=60 style="background:gold;"	Gold	width=60 style="background:silver;"	Silver	width=60 style="background:#c96;"	Bronze	width=80	Total
1	24 September	0	0	0	0
2	25 September	0	0	0	0
3	26 September	0	0	0	0
4	27 September	0	0	0	0
5	28 September	0	0	0	0
6	29 September	0	0	1	1
7	30 September	0	1	0	1
8	1 October	0	0	0	0
9	2 October	0	0	0	0
10	3 October	0	0	0	0
11	4 October	0	0	0	0
12	5 October	0	0	0	0
13	6 October	0	0	1	1
14	7 October	0	0	0	0
15	8 October	0	0	0	0
	Total	0	1	2	3

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		Squash	Men's team	30 September
	Kishmala Talat	Shooting	Women's 10m air pistol	29 September
		Kabaddi	Men's tournament	6 October

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2022 Asian Games.

Recurve

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final/Bronze Medal
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Israr Ul Haq	Men's Individual	634	51	L 2–6	colspan="6" rowspan="2"
Muhammed Nadeem		596	76	L 1–7
Idrees Majeed		594	77	colspan=7
Nighat Naheed	Women's Individual	459	81	L 0–6	colspan="6"
Israr Ul Haq Muhammad Nadeem Idrees Majeed	Men's Team	1824	18

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2022 Asian Games.

Men

Track Events

Athletes	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Shajar Abbas	200 m	21.53	17	colspan="4" rowspan=2
100 m	10.59	26
	Gohar Shahbaz	10.56	25 Q	10.49	21	colspan="2"
Muhammad Asad Ur Rehman Khan	400 m	48.60	16	colspan="2" rowspan="2"
align=left rowspan=2	Waqas Akbar	800 m	1:53.99	14	colspan=2
1,500 m	3:58.10	15	colspan="4" rowspan=2
	Sohail Amir	3:58.70	17
5,000 m		14:42.68				13
	Muhammad Akhtar					15:02.36	17
Farhan Ilyas	110 m hurdles			colspan="2" rowspan="2"
Abid Razzaq	400 m hurdles	51.51	18

Field Events

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Sharoz Khan	High Jump	2.10	12 q	2.10	12
align=left rowspan=2	Muhammad Afzal	Long Jump	6.73	18	colspan="2"
Triple Jump	15.10		11
Jaffar Ashraf	Pole Vault			11
Arshad Nadeem	Javelin Throw
Muhammad Yasir		78.13	4

Women

Track Events

Athletes	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Tameen Khan	200 m			colspan="2" rowspan=5
100 m	12.42	19
	Arooj Kiran	12.04	17
Sahib-e-Asra	400 m	55.18	9
align=left rowspan=2	Rabeela Farooq	800 m
1500 m	5:14.94	17
Farhat Bano	10,000 m	44:32.40	7
Ghazala Ramzan	100 m Hurdles	15.43	15	colspan=2

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2022 Asian Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Murad Ali	Singles		L (11–21, 11–21)	colspan="6" rowspan="3"
Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti			L (6–21, 15–21)
Murad Ali Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti	Doubles	W (21–18, 21–14)	L (14–21, 11–21)

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mahoor Shahzad	Singles		L (7–21, 10–21)	colspan="5"
Ghazala Siddique		L (10–21, 4–21)	colspan="6"
Mahoor Shahzad Ghazala Siddique	Doubles		L (5–21, 7–21)

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Muhammad Qasim	Men's 57 kg	W 5–0	L 0–5	colspan="4" rowspan="2"
Ibrahim	Men's 63.5 kg		L 0–5
Zohaib Rasheed	Men's 51 kg		W 5–0	L 0–5	colspan="3"
Fatima Zahra	Women's 57 kg		L 0–5

Bridge

See main article: Bridge at the 2022 Asian Games.

Cricket

See main article: Cricket at the 2022 Asian Games. The Pakistan Cricket Board announced the women's squad on 25 July 2023^[10] and the men's squad on 24 August 2023.^[11]

Team	Event	Group Stage			Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Pakistan men's	Men's tournament	W 68 runs	L 4 wickets	L 6 wickets	4th
Pakistan women's	Women's tournament	W	L 6 wickets	L 5 wickets	4th

Men's tournament

See main article: Cricket at the 2022 Asian Games – Men.

Coach:

Squad

1. Qasim Akram (captain)
2. Omair Bin Yousuf (vice-captain)
3. Aamir Jamal
4. Arafat Minhas
5. Arshad Iqbal
6. Asif Ali
7. Haider Ali
8. Khushdil Shah
9. Mirza Tahir Baig
10. Mohammad Hasnain
11. Muhammad Akhlaq (wk)
12. Rohail Nazir
13. Shahnawaz Dahani
14. Sufiyan Muqeem
15. Usman Qadir

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Quarter-final----

Semi-final----

Bronze medal match

Women's tournament

See main article: Cricket at the 2022 Asian Games – Women.

Coach:

Squad

1. Nida Dar (captain)
2. Aliya Riaz
3. Anosha Nasir
4. Diana Baig
5. Fatima Sana
   1. Muneeba Ali Najiha Alvi
6. Nashra Sandhu
7. Natalia Pervaiz
8. Omaima Sohail
9. Sadaf Shamas
10. Shawaal Zulfiqar
11. Sidra Ameen
12. Syeda Aroob Shah
13. Umm-e-Hani
14. Sadia Iqbal^[12]

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Quarter-final----

Semi-final

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Bronze Medal Match

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2022 Asian Games.

Individual

Field hockey

Pakistan men's team get directly qualified after their performance in 2018 Asian Games.^[13]

Summary

Men's tournament

See main article: Field hockey at the 2022 Asian Games - Men's tournament.

Pool A------------------------

5th place match

Golf

See main article: Golf at the 2022 Asian Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
		Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	To Par	Rank
Omar Khalid Hussein	Individual	81	75	156	+12	T67
Salman Jehangir		72	74	146	+2	T48
Qasim Ali Khan		73	77	150	+6	T59
Omar Khalid Hussein Salman Jehangir Qasim Ali Khan	Team	226	226	452	+31	17

Women

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
		Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	To Par	Rank
Parkha Ijaz	Individual	78	77	155	+11	T30
Rimsha Ijaz		84	80	164	+20	33
Parkha Ijaz Rimsha Ijaz	Team	162	157	319	+31	12

Kabaddi

See main article: Kabaddi at the 2022 Asian Games.

Men's tournament

See main article: Kabaddi at the 2022 Asian Games – Men.

Team roster

• Nasir Ali
• Waseem Sajjad
• Muhammad Nadeem
• Muhammad Rizwan
• Abid Hussain
• Waqar Ali
• Tahseen Ullah
• Usman Zada
• Mudassar Ali
• Kashif Razzaq
• Muhammad Imran
• Hassan Raza

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Pool B----------------

Semi–Final

Martial arts – Karate

See main article: Karate at the 2022 Asian Games.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarter-final	Semifinal	Repechage	Final/
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Hamayun	Men's kumite 60 kg	W 2–0	L 2–8	colspan="4"
Muhammad Awais	Men's kumite +84 kg		L 1–9		W 4–0	L 3–5	5th
Sabira Gul	Women's kumite 55 kg	L 1–5	colspan="5"
Nisa Un Fakhra	Women's kumite 68 kg	L 0–5	L 2–3

Martial arts – Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2022 Asian Games.

Poomsae

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarter-final	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Aqdus Ullah Qadeer	Men's individual	L 0–2	colspan="4"
Naila Akrami	Women's individual	W 2–0	L 0–2

KyorugiMen

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter-final	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Haroon Khan	Flyweight		L 1–2	colspan="4" rowspan="2"
Muhammad Arbaz Khan	Bantamweight		L 0–2
Hamzah Omar Saeed	Heavyweight		W 2–0	L 0–2

Martial arts – Wushu

See main article: Wushu at the 2022 Asian Games.

Athlete	Event	1/8 finals	Quarter-final	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Abdul Khaliq	Men's 60 kg	L	colspan=4 rowspan=2
Muhammad Abdul Rehman	Men's 65 kg	L
Samreen Altaf	Women's 52 kg		L	colspan=3 rowspan=2
Maira Karamat	Women's 60 kg		L

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2022 Asian Games.

Women

Athlete! rowspan="2"

Event	Qualification		Final
Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Mehak Fatima	10 metre air rifle	619.6	40	colspan=2
align=left rowspan="2"	Kishmala Talat	10 metre air pistol	580 -20x	3 Q	218.2
25 metre pistol	579-20x	12

Mixed

Athlete! rowspan="2"

Event	Qualification		Final
Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Ghufran Adil Mehak Fatima	10 metre air rifle team	617.6	18	colspan=2
Gulfam Joseph Kishmala Talat	10 metre air pistol	573	6 QB	14–16 L	5

Squash

See main article: Squash at the 2022 Asian Games.

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Muhammad Asim Khan	Men	W 3–1	L 2–3	colspan="4" rowspan="4"
Nasir Iqbal		W 3–0	L 0–3
Noor Ul Huda Sadiq	Women		L 0–3
Noor Ul Ain Ijaz		W 3–0	L 0–3

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Noor Zaman Mehwish Ali	Mixed	L 0–2	L 0–2	L 0–2		4	colspan="4" rowspan="2"
Farhan Zaman Sadia Gul		L 0–2	L 0–2	W 2–0	L 0–2	4

Team

Athlete	Event	Group stage						Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Muhammad Asim Khan Nasir Iqbal Noor Zaman Farhan Zaman	Men	W 3–0	W 3–0	W 3–0	W 2–1	W 3–0	1 Q	W 2–1	L 1–2
Noor Ul Huda Sadiq Mehwish Ali Noor Ul Ain Ijaz Sadia Gul	Women	L 0–3	L 0–3	W 3–0	L 1–2		4	Colspan=3

Table tennis

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Muhammad Shah Khan	Men	L 1–4	colspan="6"
Faizan Zahoor			L 0–4	colspan="5" rowspan="2"
Hoor Fawad	Women		L 0–4
Haiqa Hassan		L 1–4

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Muhammad Shah Khan Faizan Zahoor	Men	W 3–0	L 1–3	colspan="5" rowspan="4"
Hoor Fawad Perniya Zaman Khan	Women		L 0–3
Haiqa Hassan Muhammad Shah Khan	Mixed		L 2–3
Hoor Fawad Faizan Zahoor			L 0–3

Women's tournament

Tennis – Lawn tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 2022 Asian Games.

Singles

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Quarter-final	Semi-final	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Aqeel Khan	Men		L 0–6, 1–6	colspan=5 rowspan=3
Sarah Ibrahim Khan	Women	W 6–2, 6–7^(5–7), 6–3	L 0–6, 0–6
Ushna Suhail		W 6–2, 6–3	L 0–6, 0–6

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Quarter-final	Semi-final	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Aqeel Khan Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Men		W 6–1, 6–0	L 6–7^(3–7), 4–6	colspan=4 rowspan=2
Sarah Ibrahim Khan Ushna Suhail			W 6–1, 6–1	L 0–6, 0–6
Sarah Ibrahim Khan Aqeel Khan	Mixed	W 6–0, 6–1	L 0–6, 0–6	colspan=5 rowspan=2
Ushna Suhail Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi			L 4–6, 1–6

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 2022 Asian Games – Men.

Group D------------

Round of 12----

Quarterfinals----

5th place match

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2022 Asian Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Furqan Anwar	81 kg	133	8	166	8	299	7
Usman Amjad Rathore	109 kg	130	9	176	8	306	8
Muhammad Abdullah Butt	+109 kg	145	7	190	6	335	6

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2022 Asian Games.

Freestyle

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final/	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Muhammad Bilal	57 kg		L 0–10^VPO	colspan="6" rowspan="3"
Inayat Ullah	74 kg		L 0–11^VPO
Haider Ali Butt	86 kg		L 0–11^VPO
Zaman Anwar	125 kg	L 0–10^VPO	L 2–3^VPO1

Notes and References

1. Web site: NOC Profile .
2. News: Chakraborty . Amlan . 2022-05-06 . Games Hangzhou Asian Games postponed until 2023 over COVID . en . Reuters . 2023-07-25.
3. Web site: Asian Games postponed . 2022-05-09 . ocasia.org.
4. News: 19 July 2022 . OCA Press Release: OCA announces new dates for the 19th Asian Games – Hangzhou . . live . 19 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220723002319/https://ocasia.org/news/3217-oca-press-release-oca-announces-new-dates-for-the-19th-asian-games-hangzhou.html . 23 July 2022.
5. Web site: NOC Entries – Team Pakistan The 19th Asian Games . info.hangzhou2022.cn.
6. News: POA finalises contingent for Asian Games . 26 September 2023 . Geo Super.
7. News: Yaqoob . Mohammad . Pakistan finalises 262-strong contingent for Asian Games . 26 September 2023 . . 14 September 2023 . en.
8. News: Shooter Kishmala Talat wins bronze medal in Asian Games . 6 October 2023 . Geo Super. 29 September 2023 . en.
9. News: Pakistan conclude 19th Asian Games on disappointing note with only 3 medals . 12 November 2023 . . October 8, 2023.
10. News: PCB confirms 18-year-old Ayesha Naseem's retirement; Nida Dar to lead at Asian Games . ESPNcricinfo . 25 July 2023 . en.
11. News: Agarwal . Naman . Pakistan Squad For Asian Games 2023: Pakistan Shaheens Name Asif Ali, Shahnawaz Dahani Among Other Senior Internationals . Wisden . 25 August 2023.
12. Web site: Sadia Iqbal replaces Fatima Sana in Pakistan squad for Asian Games . www.pcb.com.pk . Pakistan Cricket Board . 16 September 2023.
13. Web site: 13 September 2021 . 杭州亚运会总赛程（第一版）正式公布 . Hangzhou2022 . zh.