Olympian Mahoor Shahzad gets engaged

Olympian Mahoor Shahzad, Pakistan’s first badminton player to qualify for the sports event, got engaged over the past weekend.

25-year-old Olympian, Mahoor Shahzad exchanged rings with Major Faizan Alam of the Pakistan Army in a private ceremony on Sunday as announced by her on social media.

Mahoor took to micro-blogging site Twitter on Tuesday, and shared a two picture gallery from the ceremony, featuring the lovely bride in a peach-hued attire with silver embellishments, while his fiancé, Faizan looked dapper in a gray suit.

“Alhumdulillah, Engaged 💍”, the national badminton player noted in the caption, as she termed to-be-husband as ‘Soulmate’.

It is pertinent to mention, Mahoor, who is the first-ever badminton player from the country to qualify for the sports event and represented Pakistan in Tokyo Summer Olympics 2020, belongs to a sports family, and began her training back in 2008.

She was the flag-bearer at the opening ceremony as well along with Muhammad Khalil Akhtar.

Her younger sister Rabia Shahzad is Pakistan’s youngest woman weightlifter and has won various titles, along with earning a gold medal in an international event, first from any woman powerlifter in the country.

Moreover, her father Muhammad Shahzad has been an international basketball player and a rowing champion.