Dhaka, Rajshahi win football titles
Dhaka and Rajshahi emerged champions in girls' and boys' football events respectively in the inaugural Bangladesh Youth Games at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur yesterday.
With none of the 41 girls under different national teams not allowed in this competition due to training camp, the girls' final turned into an open encounter between Dhaka and Mymensingh, with the former having the last laugh following a 3-1 win. Rajshahi, meanwhile, handed a 4-1 defeat to Sylhet to win the gold in boys' football.
Though the girls from Mymensingh could not bring football's gold home, girls from same division won the kabaddi gold after posting a massive 43-16 victory while Chittagong bagged the gold in boys' kabaddi beating Sylhet 30-27 in final.
Chittagong also bagged gold in girls' volleyball after beating Sylhet 3-0 while the gold medal in boys' event went to Khulna, who beat Mymensingh 3-0.
Khulna also bagged gold medal in girls' hockey after beating Dhaka 4-1 while Rangpur won gold in boys' event with a hard-fought 4-3 win over Rajshahi.
At the end of the fourth day of the games, Rajshahi division dominated medals tally with 36 gold followed by Chittagong and Khulna who won 34 and 32 gold medals respectively.
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