Inam faces Hamid in Rustam-i-Pakistan contest tomorrow

KARACHI: Pakistan's premier wrestler Mohammad Inam will meet Hamid Khan in what could be an interesting final of the Rustam-i-Pakistan which will be held at Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad on Friday.This is the first time that Inam played a high-level mud wrestling event. Inam, an expert of mat wrestling, is expected to pull off crown in his maiden event. However Hamid, who is Rustam-e-Multan, also is a fighting wrestler. Hamid had lifted the heavyweight title of the 2010 National Games in Peshawar by beating the 2011 Rustam-e-Pakistan Usman Majeed. Hamid has represented Pakistan in several international events. However, he has not achieved anything big in any international competition. Inam, on the other hand, has to his credit two titles of the Commonwealth Games and two crowns of the World Beach Wrestling Championships. Inam has also qualified for the World Beach Games which will be held in the United States later this year. Rustam-e-Pakistan has been revived after a long gap of seven years. Last time Karachi had hosted the event in 2011 at the Asghar Ali Shah Stadium. This would now be a biennial event. The final between Inam and Hamid will be of 30-minute duration as per rules. If it was not decided in the stipulated period then another fight under the rules of mat-wrestling will be held and the wrestler who will take first point in that case will be declared winner.The pre-quarter-finals, in which grapplers of regions took part, were held in Lahore. The quarter-finals and semi-finals were conducted in Bahawalpur. The winner will be handed over a purse of Rs500,000 with the runner-up to go away with Rs250,000. Similarly Rs150,000 will be given to the third position holder and the fourth-position holder will claim Rs100,000.

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