Archery: Ansar accord reception to archer Ruman Shana

Dhaka – Bangladesh Ansar and VDP accorded a reception to the country’s celebrated archer Mohammad Ruman Shana at the Ansars headquarters in Khilgaon area in the city on Monday for his brilliant performance in the Asia Cup-World Ranking Archery Tournament (Stage-3) in the Philippines on Sept 13.

Director-General of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP Major General Kazi Sharif Kaikobad greeted Shana for his success and assured him all kinds of co-operation in the future.

Shana clinched an individual gold medal in the recurve men’s singles of the Asia Cup-World Ranking Archery Tournament (Stage-3) in the Philippines this month.

The 24-year-old Bangladeshi archer also won two more medals, one silver medal in the recurve men’s team event and a bronze medal in the recurve mixed team event of the same event.

Shana is the first Bangladeshi archer qualified for the Tokyo Olympics’2020 directly by winning the first-ever bronze medal in the World Archery Championships’2019 held in Netherlands in June this year.

The meritorious archer earlier bagged two more individual gold medals in the International Archery Tournament in Bishkek in 2017 and in the 1st Asian Archery Grand Pix in Thailand in 2014.UNB