16th Asian Games-Guangzhou 2010
Poor show all around
Apart from the silver won by the women’s cricket team, Bangladesh’s ordinary Asian Games continued in all the other events.
Shooting, the perennial medal hope event, was the worst with none of the country’s shooters making it even close to the top fifteen of any of the disciplines.
Taekwondo, hockey, golf, archery, weightlifting and chess only saw a smattering of good performances that ultimately resulted in little. And billiard, boxing and swimming did not even take off from the preliminary phase.
SHOOTING
In the 50m rifle 3 positions, both men and women had a wretched time over the last three days.
On Wednesday, veteran Sabrina Sultana finished 32nd with 559 points, accounting for Bangladesh’s best performance as Tripti Dutta ended on 41st place with 550 points and Sharmin Shilpa rounded up the table with a last place finish with 535 points.
In the men’s event the following day, Mohammad Ramjan surprised many with his 19th place finish with 1139 points, much higher than the more accomplished Abdullah Hel Baki, who was 32nd with 1122 points. Shahrear Khan was 25th with 1134 points.
The poor performance was another example of Bangladesh’s falling stocks in the world of shooting.
HOCKEY
After two losses, Bangladesh bounced back to crush Hong Kong 7-3 at the Aoti Hockey Field on Thursday.
The match however didn’t start too well for Bangladesh as they went down a goal in the 14th minute, before Russel Mahmud Jimmy leveled it a minute later.
Bangladesh took over soon after, scoring goals at will
and ended the first half with a 3-2 lead.
Mamunur Rahman Chayan scored four goals while Jimmy netted thrice.
In the earlier matches, Bangladesh had lost to Japan 1-3 and went down 0-9 to India.
BILLIARD
Tayef Quader and Fahim Sinha bowed out of the men’s 9-ball pool singles event in the preliminary phase.
Fahim lost to Indonesia’s Ricky Yang by 9-4 frames while Tayef, who made it to the quarterfinal of the 8-ball pool, lost to China’s Fu Jianbo 9-1.
SWIMMING
In the men’s 50m butterfly, Mohammad Kamal Hossain ended up on 27th place after clocking 26.903 seconds in the heats at the Aoti Aquatics Centre on Tuesday.
A little later in the day, Mahfuza Khatun took a minute and 22.15 seconds to finish in sixth place in the heats. She was 12.34 seconds behind Kaneto Rie of Japan who topped the heats.
The lowly finishes ensured another thankless performance in the water for Bangladesh.
BOXING
All three boxers had a torrid time since Tuesday. First it was Abdur Rahim who lost to Turkmenistan’s Serdar Hudayberdiyev 6-0 in the men’s 64kg round-of-32 bout.
Suruz Bangali then lost to Filipino Wilfredo Lopez 5-1 in the 69kg and yesterday it was the turn of Jewel Ahmed to fall.
In the 60kg round-of-16 bout, Jewel lost to China’s Hu Qing 9-0 to end all hopes of Bangladesh in the discipline.
CHESS
In the men’s individual event on Tuesday, FM Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar finished 19th, followed by GM Niaz Murshed on 20th with five points
each. Uzbekistan’s Rustam Kasimdzhanov won gold in the event.
WFM Shamima Akhtar Liza was 20th with 4.5 points while Sharmin Sultana finished 24th with four points in the women’s individual event.
In the team event, the men are in joint fifth place with Qatar, China and Kazakhstan on 5.5 points following their second round win over Lebanon. The women are on seventh place with four points after their loss to Vietnam.
GOLF
In the men’s individual event, Mohammad Sayum is in 19th position on eight over at 224, followed by Shakhawat Hossain Sohel (9), Jakir Hossain (16) and Dulal Hossain (21).
Bangladesh are now in ninth position with a score of 27 over at 675.
TAEKWONDO
Mohammad Arman Hossain had a poor time, losing 10-2 to Saysana Vannavong of Laos yesterday.
Mizanur Rahman and Shammi Akhtar also lost their matches in the previous two days.
ARCHERY
Mathui Pru Marma and Beauty Roy qualified from the women’s individual qualification round.
As a team, Bangladesh scored 3334 points at the Aoti Archery Range.
WEIGHTLIFTING
At the Dongguan Gymnasium, Bidyut Kumar Roy finished ninth among 12 in the men’s 105kg group.
