Pakistan’s Emma wins global memory competition

ISLAMABAD: A young Pakistani girl Emma Alam has won the 29th World Memory Championships after beating more than 300 competitors from all over the world.
Emma competed in over 10 disciplines in three-day competition, which included participants from China, Canada, United Kingdom, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, Algeria, United States, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Libya, Qatar and Iraq.
Emma and Syeda Kisa Zehra from Pakistan team broke multiple world records in the championships.
Pakistan team’s another member Abeerah Ather also achieved 7th position in the 2020 global rankings.
Emma was thrilled to win the prestigious global event. She said, “I had aimed to give my best in the championships after a lot of daily practice for the past two years with my coach and the institute. It still astonishes me that the mechanism of human memory and brain’s information storage system are so powerful.”
She said that she has planned to compete again next year with even better performance. “I congratulate all those amazing competitors, who competed from across the globe,” she added.
Emma, who is currently completing her studies through home-schooling, had competed in various memory championships in the past, including the 3rd Asia Pacific Memory Championships in Malaysia and the 28th World Memory Championships in China, and won countless medals and trophies through her splendid performance.
The World Memory Championships is an esteemed tournament of mind sports, where skills of intellectual ability are measured as opposed to physical sports. The event was founded in 1991 by world-renowned Tony Buzan and Raymond Keene with the aim to shine a global spotlight on the incredible power of human memory.