All the Bangladesh archers made their early exit from their respective events of the 23rd Asian Archery Championship' 2023 held in Bangkok on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Archery team left Dhaka for Bangkok on November 2 to participate in the 23rd Asian Archery Championship' 2023 and Asian Continental Qualifying tournament for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Apart from three officials, Bangladesh team included eight archers including four male and as many female archers - Hakim Ahmed Rubel, Roman Shana, Sagor Islam, Diya Siddiqui, Shima Akter Shimu, Monira Akter (recurve archer),Mohammad Ashiqquzzaman and Bonnya Akter (compound archer).
Bangladesh competed in eight events, men’ srecurve team, men’srecurve singles, women’ srecurve team, women’s recurve singles, recurve mixed team,men’s compound singles, women’s compound singles and compound mixed team events.After the completion of Asian events, a six-member recurve teamthree male and three female competed in the Asian Continental Qualifying tournament for the 2024 Paris Olympic Gamesfrom November 10-12.
On Wednesday, in the recurve men’s team event, Bangladesh team was eliminated from quarterfinal final stage losing to South Korea by 2-6 sets. Earlier, they qualified for the quarterfinal eliminating Mongolia by 6-0 sets. Bonnya Akter of Bangladesh was eliminated from the quarterfinal of the compound women's singles losing to Lyan Viktoriya of Kazakhstan by 142-143 score. Hakim Ahmed Rubel of Bangladesh lost to Rai Tarundeep of India by 4-6:sets in the recurve men's singles event.
Two archers of compound division out of eight- member Bangladesh team--Mohammad Ashiqquzzaman and Bonnya Akter scheduled to return home today (Friday).
The remaining six archers three male and three female, all of recurve division will compete in the Asian Continental Qualifying Tournament for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to be held there from November 10-12.
Meanwhile, Asian Games Archery Bangladesh finished7th in ranking round of Recurve Men’s team event.