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Muqsit Amir

Muqsit Amir was born in Faisalabad on 6th January, 2001. He's currently studying BSSE from Khazar International University. Muqsit was 9 years old when he started playing Badminton at Al-Fatah Sports Complex, under the supervision of his father, Amer Islam.

Muqsit entered as the youngest player in his first ever professional tournament: National Junior Championship 2011. He lost out in the second round. Muqsit has played several tournaments throughout his career and has bagged numerous titles too. Some of the majors he has won are listed below:

  • Roots Flagship Olympiad 2016 Champion

  • Inter college Champion 2016-2017

  • Inter board Runner up 2016-2017

  • FAST-NUCES Barsalego 2018 WINNER

  • FAST-NUCES DAIRA 2019 WINNER

  • NTU Sports Olympiad WINNER

  • District Championship 2018 Winner in all Categories

  • Faisalabad Division Badminton Championship Winner 2018 (Men's Singles and Doubles)

  • Punjab Junior Championship 2018 Runner Up (Singles and Doubles)

  • National Junior Championship 2017-2018 Bronze(number 3)

  • Punjab Badminton Championship 2019 Silver Medalist (Men's Singles Runner Up)

  • Army Inter Unit Gold medalist

  • National Inter Centre Championship 2019-2020 Champion

  • Army Championship 2020 Gold medalist (Team Event)


In Punjab Badminton Championship 2019, Muqsit pulled out a major upset on his way to the finals by beating Muqeet Tahir (MS Pak no. 5) in Quarter finals.


Apart from his achievements mentioned above, Muqsit has lost many matches from decisive moments which according to him is the "hardest thing to get over and move on". Moreover, Muqsit faced a knee injury in 2017 while training in the National camp held under Coach Arwind Verma from Malaysia. Although Muqsit wasn't much worried as he did not know the intensity of the injury until he got his MRI done. The reports stated that he had damaged his left meniscus' posterior horn. Since his injury, sometimes he has to adjust his training accordingly.


Moreover, athletes face these kinds of challenges in their journey but some sort of motivation is what they require. However Muqsit finds it difficult to stay motivated sometimes as he states, "In Pakistan with scarce opportunities and minimal to no reward, its really difficult to find motivation but i guess every time I performed well in professional play and every time I lost a well fought match in practice, it motivated me to do even better because I have always been a very competitive person at everything I have ever done and badminton is no exception and I suppose that's why i have kept training and battling even when the chips were down".

Throughout his career, his father- Amer Islam, his brother and Coach Zahid Maqbool has been his constant support. During his career uptil now, he has trained under several coaches: Amer Islam, Zahid Maqbool, Moeed Ahmad, Arvind Varma.


Pakistan's 44th best Men's Singles player, Muqsit Amir, aims to represent Pakistan on International level and be able to compete with the very best. 



Written by: Muhammad Anas Akhtar (Admin FBCOP)

https://www.facebook.com/badmintoninpakistan/


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  1. Nahida Afrin MimOctober 11, 2020 at 10:11 PM

    I always pray to Allah for your success at every challenge of your life u deal with or you'll in future. May you have the highest of what u deserve! Lots of well wishes for u!

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