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Sports Reporter

The two-day-long Youngone 33rd National Athletics Competition starts today at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. Bangladesh Athletics Federation will arrange the athletics meet.

Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser Brigadier General (retd) M A Malek will formally open the meet today at 9.00 AM as the chief guest.

To mark the ensuing athletics competition, a press conference was held at the conference room of National Sports Council on Saturday. President of Bangladesh Athletics Federation (BAF) and Chairman of BIWTC ASM Ali Kabir, Vice-President of BAF Shah Alam, General Secretary of the federation Mosharrof Hossain Shamim spoke at the conference. A Korean-based organisation Youngone Group will sponsor the meet while ATN Bangla will be the media partner and Spa will be the official drinks.

About 500 athletes from different districts, divisions, universities and associations will take part in the competition.

The budget of the tournament has been estimated at Tk eight lakh while Youngone Group, the sponsor of the meet, has given Tk four lakh to the federation and the federation will bear rest of the expenditure.

A total of 32 events for men and women will be held in the two-day-long athletics competition.