After a gap of three years, the Walton 12th National Summer Athletics Championship 2014 will be held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on September 7-8. Being one of the largest and colourful local sports events of the country, it will feature 64 districts, seven divisions, different universities, physical colleges and services teams.
A total of 700 male and female athletes along with 200 officials will take part in the two-day long meet which will see light for the first time since 2011.
The service teams that will play in the meet are Bangladesh Army, Navy, Air Force, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Ansar & VDP, Jail and Police, BJMC and Bangladesh Railway.
A press conference regarding the tournament was held yesterday where the details were revealed. The organisers claimed that the approximate budget of the meet is Tk1.31m with title sponsor Walton providing Tk0.4m. General secretary of Bangladesh Athletics Federation Ibrahim Chengish, Walton’s additional director and head of games & sports FM Iqbal Bin Anwar, federation’s joint secretary Milzar Hossain were present on the occasion.
Iqbal Bin Anwar said they will continue their support to organise sports events regularly. He also announced to provide affluence to the athletes creating new records in the meet and pledged to promote talented young players.
State Minister for Youth and Sports Biren Sikder will inaugurate the meet as the chief guest.