By our correspondent
LAHORE: Pakistani swimmers Mohammad Ahmed Durrani and Jehanara Nabi failed to impress in the 200m freestyle heats in the Paris Olympics at the Paris La Defense Arena on Sunday.
Dubai-based Ahmed Durrani finished at the last 25th spot when he even failed to surpass his personal best timing by clocking one minute and 58.67 seconds. His personal best was one minute and 55 seconds.
This was the first time that Durrani was featuring in the Olympics. Top 16 had to progress to the semi-finals.
Meanwhile Jehanara Nabi, who was also making her Olympics debut, finished at the last 26th spot with a time of 2:10.69. She also failed to surpass her personal best time of 2:08.57.
Top 16 fastest had to advance to the semi-finals.
On Saturday national shooters Joseph Gulfam and Kishmala Talat had also flopped in the 10m air pistol competitions.
On Monday (today) both Joseph Gulfam and Kishmala will feature in the 10m air pistol mixed team qualification round at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre.
Pakistan is fielding seven athletes in the Olympics.
Arshad Nadeem, who is the sole medal hope, will compete on August 6. According to sources he has completely focused on his training at better weather conditions as he had to face trouble while training at Lahore due to extreme hot conditions during his marathon training.
