Bangladesh continued to excel at the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Games as they won five more gold medals in Newcastle Australia yesterday.
Parul Akter was the notable performer of the day and he won the 50M freestyle swimming event with a time of 40.45 seconds. Parul had earlier won the gold in the 50M breaststroke.
Md. Sagor Ahmed clinched the finished first in the men’s 200 meter sprint with a time of 27.34 second in the track and field.
Chaity Akter emerged as the fastest woman in the female division 8 by clocking 17. 58 seconds in the 100M sprint. Kaniz Fatema took silver in the same event.
Munni Akter and Rabeya Khatun clinched the crown in the women’s badminton doubles.
Humayun Kabir won the men’s 200M sprint with a time of 27.62 seconds.
Zakia Sultana and Sadia Urmi eadded to Bangladesh’s bag of gold medals by winning the Bocce Doubles gold.
