Emma Alam becomes first Pakistani ever to win ‘World Memory Championship’

Pakistani girl Emma Alam has broken multiple world records by winning in the 29th World Memory Championships global finals.

Hailing from Karachi, Emma Alam beat over 300 competitors from all across the world by winning the competition. Participants from various countries such as Canada, China, United Kingdom, South Korea, India, Vietnam, United States, Malaysia, Algeria, Iraq, Hong Kong, Macau, Libya, Qatar, and Taiwan took part in the competition.

Emma competed in all ten disciplines in a three-day competition, which took place virtually, with the Chinese city, Sanya, as the base. She became the first Pakistani ever to win the World Memory Championship.

Emma was excited about the championship and expressed, “I had aimed to give my best in WMC 2020, backed by a lot of daily practice for the past two years with my coach and the institute. It still astonishes me how powerful the mechanism of human memory is and the brain’s infinite information storage system.”