BKSP’s Ariful Islam Orange and Irin Akhter retained the youth 100 meter sprint gold medal in the second and final day of the 29th National Junior (Age Level) Athletics Championship on Monday. BKSP finished top of the medals tally with 20 golds while Narail district came second with three gold medals.
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Uzzal, Aysha fastest boy, girl in Nat’l Jr Athletics
The 29th National Junior Athletics Championship began on Sunday with Kishorganj district’s Uzzal Chandra Sutradhar and BKSP’s class 10 student Aysha Siddika announcing their grand arrival as the fastest boy and girl of the nation at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. In the age of 17 years and four months, Uzzal,
Ex-athlete Ratan weeps in silence
Athletics, the most electrifying discipline of the eighth Bangladesh Games, will begin today at the Bangabandhu National Stadium but it hardly makes Jahirul Haq Ratan very enthusiastic. Once known as the King of Marathon, Ratan was banned for life by the Bangladesh Athletics Federation due to a scandal at the 2010 South Asian Games in ... Read more
State of swimming and athletics in dire straits
Athletics and swimming, the two key disciplines of the forthcoming Bangladesh Games, are unlikely to match international standard due to a lack of proper equipment and poor venue management. The Games, scheduled from April 20 to 28, will begin with track and field, breaking a long tradition which saw the events being taken place always ... Read more