Inam Butt eyes continuing winning run in World Beach Wrestling series

Inam Butt eyes continuing winning run in World Beach Wrestling series:

KARACHI: Pakistan’s most celebrated wrestler Inam Butt is confident about continuing his winning run in the World Beach Wrestling series 2021 after reaching Greece for the third tournament of this year’s series.

The 32-year-old wrestler from Gujranwala had last week won the gold medal in Italy’s edition of the World Beach Wrestling series, beating Ukraine's Oleksii Yakovchuk in the final.

His next stop in the beach wrestling series is Greece where he’ll be in action for the next two days — Friday and Saturday — at Katerini Beach in Paralia, Greece.

Butt told Geo.tv that he is eying on adding another gold medal to his tally of international golds for the country.

The wrestler, who had also won gold medals in beach wrestling at Dalian 2017 and Sarigerme 2018, said that he is confident of a good show.

“I have arrived in Greece and eying for another medal for my country. InshaAllah, I will do my best and I am hopeful that my partner, Zaman Anwar Khan, will also win the medal for Pakistan,” Butt said after reaching Greece.

"We will attempt to win one, however, two decorations for the country," he said while sharing his point. 

Butt is viewed as among the best grapplers delivered by the country. He has, up until this point, dominated two Commonwealth Games gold decorations, two South Asian Games gold awards, one Asian seashore games gold decoration, and one world seashore games gold decoration, notwithstanding various public gold decorations. 

He will challenge in the 90kg classification while his partner Khan will be in real life for the 90+kg classification during the competition in Greece. 

Butt said that he had prepared in Rome subsequent to finishing his competition there and has done practice in Greece too in the wake of arriving at the setting. 

"I'm feeling better and sure in front of my activity on Friday," he said.