KARACHI: “You know there is never a break for me, I have actually even trained on the day of my wedding,” Pakistan’s most coveted weightlifter Muhammad Nooh Dastagir Butt had gushed about first, getting married to the love of his life and second for making sure that he is leaving no stone unturned to fulfil the dream of qualifying for the 2024 Olympics, for making sure he makes Pakistan proud again.

But that was the conversation on the last day of December 2022. Nooh has been thrilled with the year that was, he was talking about how so many of his dreams come true. His biggest fight was to make a comeback, and he did, with the history-making performance at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where he lifted 405 kilogrammes with 175 in snatch and 232 in clean and jerk, creating Commonwealth Games records in the overall total of the +109kg category, in the best total in snatch and the best total in clean and jerk.

Published in The Daily National Courier, February, 04 2023

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