Pakistan at the 2022 Commonwealth Games explained

Cga:	PAK
Cganame:	National Olympic Committee of Pakistan
Games:	Commonwealth Games
Year:	2022
Flagcaption:	Flag of Pakistan
Location:	Birmingham, England
Competitors Men:	42
Competitors Women:	25
Sports:	12
Flagbearer Open:	Muhammad Inam Bismah Maroof
Flagbearer Close:	Zaman Anwar
Rank:	18
Gold:	2
Silver:	3
Bronze:	2

Pakistan competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games at Birmingham, England from 28 July to 8 August 2022. It was Pakistan's 14th appearance at the Commonwealth Games.^[1]

Muhammad Inam and Bismah Maroof were the country's flagbearers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.^{[2] [3]}

Arshad Nadeem won Pakistan's first ever gold medal in Javelin Throw at the Commonwealth Games and the first Athletics gold medal since 1962.^[4] Pakistan won a total of seven medals, including two golds, three silvers and two bronze medals, which was its best medal haul at the Commonwealth Games since 1970.^[5] Overall Pakistan finished at 18 on the medal table out of 72 participating nations.

Administration

Syed Mohammad Abid Qadri was the Chef de Mission for the Pakistani team in Birmingham.^[6]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.^[7]

width=140	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
	3	2	5
	2	2	4
	3	1	4
		15	15
	18	0	18
	1	0	1
	2	0	2
	2	2	4
	1	3	4
	1	0	1
	3	0	3
	6	0	6
Total	350	42	25	67

Notes

Medallists

Medals by date
Day	Date				Total
Day 1	29 Jul	0	0	0	0
Day 2	30 Jul	0	0	0	0
Day 3	31 Jul	0	0	0	0
Day 4	1 Aug	0	0	0	0
Day 5	2 Aug	0	0	0	0
Day 6	3 Aug	1	0	1	2
Day 7	4 Aug	0	0	0	0
Day 8	5 Aug	0	2	1	3
Day 9	6 Aug	0	1	0	1
Day 10	7 Aug	1	0	0	1
Day 11	8 Aug	0	0	0	0
Total		2	3	2	7

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	2	3	2	7
Female	0	0	0	0
Mixed	0	0	0	0
Total	2	3	2	7

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
	bgcolor=#f7f6a8	1	bgcolor=#dce5e5	0	bgcolor=#ffdab9	0	1
	bgcolor=#f7f6a8	1	bgcolor=#dce5e5	0	bgcolor=#ffdab9	0	1
	bgcolor=#f7f6a8	0	bgcolor=#dce5e5	3	bgcolor=#ffdab9	1	4
	bgcolor=#f7f6a8	0	bgcolor=#dce5e5	0	bgcolor=#ffdab9	1	1
Total	2	3	2	7

See main article: 2022 Commonwealth Games medal table.

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Qualification. A squad of five athletes was officially confirmed as of 19 July 2022.^[8]

Men

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Shajar Abbas	align=left rowspan=1	100 m	10.38	4	colspan="4"
align=left rowspan=1	200 m	21.12	1 Q	20.89	8 q	21.16	8

Field events

Athlete	Event	Final
		Distance	Rank
Jamshad Ali	align=left rowspan=1	Shot put	15.72	11
Arshad Nadeem	align=left rowspan=1	Javelin throw	90.18

Women

Track and road events

Field events

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Pakistan received a Bipartite Invitation for the mixed team competition. A squad of four players was selected shortly after the selection trials on 12 May 2022.^[9]

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
Murad Ali	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	W (21–9, 21–8)	L (14–21, 16–21)	Align=center colspan="5"
Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti	W (21–6, 21–19)	L (10–21, 9–21)	Align=center colspan="5"
Mahoor Shahzad	align=left rowspan=2	Women's singles	W (21–10, 21–8)	L (20–22, 1–8)	Align=center colspan="5"
Ghazala Siddique	W (21–4, 21–3)	L (15–21, 14–21)	Align=center colspan="5"
Murad Ali Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti	Men's doubles		W (21–19, 21–17)	L (8–21, 7–21)	colspan="4"
Mahoor Shahzad Ghazala Siddique	Women's doubles		L (10–21, 13–21)

Mixed team

See main article: Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Mixed team.

Summary

Squad

• Murad Ali
• Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti
• Mahoor Shahzad
• Ghazala Siddique

Group stage

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. A squad of five boxers was officially confirmed as of 19 July 2022.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Men's Flyweight		colspan="5"
Ilyas Hussain	Men's Featherweight	M. Mokhotho W RSC	A. Joseph W 3–2	align=center	J. GallagherL 0–5	colspan="3"
	Men's Light welterweight	S.Thapa L 0–5	colspan="5"
	Men's Heavyweight		L. Williams L 0–5	colspan="4"
	Women's Featherweight		align=center	S. Muthuthanthri L 0–5

Cricket

See main article: Cricket at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. By virtue of its position in the ICC Women's T20I rankings (as of 1 April 2021), Pakistan qualified for the tournament.^{[10] [11]}

Fixtures were announced in November 2021.^[12]

RosterFifteen players were selected on 31 May 2022.^{[13] [14]}

• Bismah Maroof (c)
• Muneeba Ali (wk)
• Anam Amin
• Aiman Anwer
• Diana Baig
• Nida Dar
• Gull Feroza (wk)
• Tuba Hassan
• Kainat Imtiaz
• Sadia Iqbal
• Iram Javed
• Ayesha Naseem
• Aliya Riaz
• Fatima Sana
• Omaima Sohail

Summary

Group play

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Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. One gymnast was officially selected as of 19 July 2022.

Artistic

Men

Individual Qualification

Hockey

See main article: Hockey at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. By virtue of its position in the FIH Men's World Ranking (as of 1 February 2022), Pakistan qualified for the men's tournament.^{[15] [16]}

Detailed fixtures were released on 9 March 2022.^[17] Eighteen players were selected for the men's squad as of 13 July 2022.^[18]

Men's tournament

See main article: Hockey at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's tournament.

Summary

Roster

• Akmal Hussain (gk)
• Abdullah Ishtiaq (gk)
• Mubashir Ali
• Ammad Butt
• Mohammad Hammad
• Muhammad Abdullah
• Rizwan Ali
• Muhammad Umar Bhutta
• Moin Shakeel
• Abdul Mannan
• Junaid Manzoor
• Ghazanfar Ali
• Ajaz Ahmed
• Rana Waheed
• Ruman Khan
• Afraz Hakeem
• Hannan Shahid
• Ahmed Nadeem

Group play

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Seventh place match

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Two judoka were selected for the competition.^[19]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final/
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Shah Hussain Shah	-90 kg		L	W
Qaisar Khan	-100 kg	L

Squash

See main article: Squash at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. A squad of four players was officially confirmed as of 19 July 2022.^[20]

Singles

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
Tayyab Aslam	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles		L 0-1 ret	colspan="5"
Nasir Iqbal	W 3–0	W 1-0 ret	L 0–3	colspan="4"
Amna Fayyaz	align=left rowspan=2	Women's singles		L 0–3	colspan="5"
Faiza Zafar		L 0–3

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tayyab Aslam Nasir Iqbal	Men's doubles	W 2–0	L 1–2	colspan="4"
Faiza Zafar Amna Fayyaz	Women's doubles		L 0–2	colspan="4"
Tayyab Aslam Amna Fayyaz	align=left rowspan=2	Mixed doubles	L 0–2	colspan="5"
Nasir Iqbal Faiza Zafar	W 2–0	L 0–2

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. A squad of four swimmers was officially confirmed as of 19 July 2022.^[20]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Haseeb Tariq	align=left rowspan="1"	50 m freestyle	24.65	43	colspan="4" rowspan="3"
50 m backstroke	27.89	31
align=left rowspan="1"	50 m butterfly	25.97	35

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=4	Bisma Khan	align=left rowspan="1"	50 m freestyle	27.82	38	colspan="4" rowspan="5"
align=left rowspan="1"	100 m freestyle	1:02.59	47
align=left rowspan="1"	50 m butterfly	29.43	33
align=left rowspan="1"	100 m butterfly	1:08.21	31
align=left rowspan=3	Jehanara Nabi	align=left rowspan="1"	100 m freestyle	1:01.51	40
align=left rowspan="1"	200 m freestyle	2:13.38	22	colspan="2" rowspan="2"
align=left rowspan="1"	400 m freestyle	4:36.87	17	colspan=2
align=left rowspan=3	Mishael Ayub	align=left rowspan="1"	50 m breaststroke	37.96	31	colspan="4" rowspan="3"
align=left rowspan="1"	100 m breaststroke	1:22.12	26
align=left rowspan="1"	50 m butterfly	31.44	46

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Table tennis at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Qualification. Four players were initially selected on 16 March 2022;^[21] it was later confirmed on 13 May 2022 that only one player (Fahad Khawaja) would go to the Games.^[22]

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Weightlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Qualification. The PWF was set to send six qualified weightlifters to Birmingham but a doping scandal means that only three are provisionally set to attend the Games.^[23]

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Haider Ali	81 kg	135	7	170	5	305	5
Hanzala Dastgir Butt	109 kg	142	9	173	9	315	9
Nooh Dastgir Butt	+109 kg	173 GR	1	232 GR	1	405 GR

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Following the trials, five male wrestlers were selected on 2 April 2022,^[24] with a sixth added to the squad at a later date.^[25]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ali Asad	Men's -57 kg	H. RidingsW 10-0	R. Goliath W 10-0	K. Ravi L 4-14		S. SinghW 11-0	DSQ
Inayat Ullah	Men's -65 kg	A. VellaW 10-0	A. DanielW 4-0	L. McNeilL 0-11		R. ConnellyW10-0
Sharif Tahir	Men's -74 kg	J. Vake W11-0	J. PhulkaW5-1	C. HawkinsW11-0		N. Naveen L0-9
Muhammad Inam	Men's -86 kg	K. MaloneW 11-0	J. LawerenceW 8-3	E. LessingW 5-3		D. PuniaL 0-3
Tayab Raza	Men's -97 kg	R. MackeyW10-0	C. NicolW10-0	N. RandhawaL0-7		D. Nehra L2-10	4
Zaman Anwar	Men's -125 kg		K. MarieW 12-0	M. KoonerW 5-0		A. Dhesi L 2-9

Doping

Disqualified medal

Ali Asad was stripped of his medal due to testing positive for performance enhancement drugs.^[26]

See also

• Pakistan at the 2022 Winter Olympics
• Pakistan at the 2022 Asian Games

External links

• Pakistan Olympic Association Official site

Notes and References

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19. Web site: Pakistan contingent for Commonwealth Games finalised. www.thenews.com.pk. en.
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21. News: PTTF name players for Commonwealth Games. 16 March 2022. The News International. Jang Media Group. 16 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220316110636/https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/941885-pttf-name-players-for-commonwealth-games. 16 March 2022. live.
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26. Web site: Ali Asad to return CWG bronze after positive dope test. October 1, 2021. Express Tribune. September 12, 2022. en-US.