Naseem Hamid, 22-years-old, is South Asia’s fastest women, a title earned after winning the women’s 100-meter race in the regional games in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Naseem is Pakistan’s first female athlete to win the sprint in the competition’s 26-year history.
“I am on cloud nine,” Naseem told reporters at the airport. “I had forgotten the world for six months and trained really very, very hard under my coach Maqsood Ahmed to achieve this.”
“It is a great moment for me to have brought glory to the country in my event since our athletics standards have been poor of late. And I will do my best to compete and win at higher levels like the Commonwealth Games and Olympics.”