Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com
Sadia Sultana, a gold medallist shooter both in the Commonwealth Shooting Championship and South Asian Games, passed away at the Chattogram Medical College Hospital on Monday. She was 31.
Sadia, who survived a fire incident in 2017 that burned 20 per cent of her body, had been suffering from mental illness.
She won gold in the 10m women’s air rifle team event with Sharmin Akter Ratna in the SA Games in Dhaka in January 2010, a month before winning gold at the Commonwealth SC in New Delhi, India.
The Chittagong Rifles Club shooter last took part in a competition in 2013 when she won a gold medal in the Bangladesh Games before she went out of the sporting scene due to a lack of support from the Bangladesh Sports Shooting Federation and her club.
Sadia left behind two sons and hosts of well-wishers to mourn her death.
She was buried to rest at the Hamjarbag Garveyard in Chattogram after namaz-e-janaza after the isha prayer at the premises of the city’s Onirban Club.
