Bangladesh began their archery gold-hunt in style at Pokahra, winning in the Recurve Men’s team and Recurve Women’s event- both against Sri Lanka – at the 13th South Asian Games on Sunday (Dec.8)
Roman Sana, Hakim Ahmed Rubel and Tamil Islam beat Sri Lanka’s Dalpatadu Ravien Kavisha, Mahamadaachchi Sajeev and Sadun Kumara by 5-3 sets in the Recurve Men's team event. In the women's team event, Iti Khatun, Monira Akhter and Beauty Roy claimed gold with a 6-0 win over Sri Lanka.
Bangladesh’s archers made it to the final of all ten events in archery and the medal count is expected to rise today. All six of today’s archery events are team events while the four individual events will take place tomorrow.
So far Bangladesh won 8 gold medals are expecting 2 more making the tally of 10 as expected