Bangladesh men’s recurve team, consists on Roman Shana, Tamimul Islam and Hakim Ahmed Rubel, scored 1997 to settle for the 16th place, will play the elimination round of 12 on Tuesday.
In the Recurve men’s team event on Tuesday, Bangladesh will take on Spanish team comprises of Pablo Acha, Miguel Alvarino Garcia, Daniel Castro, ranked 17th scoring 1990.
In the recurve men’s singles of the ranking round, Bangladeshi premier archer Mohammad Roman Shana finished 20th among 200 archers scoring 676, another Bangladeshi archer Mohammad Hakim Ahmed Rubel finished 59th scoring 662 while Mohammad Tamimul Islam finished 67th scoring 659.
Bangladesh archers will play in the elimination round of 48 on Tuesday.
In the recurve men’s singles on Tuesday, Roman Shana will play against Thomas Rufer of Switzerland, Md Hakim Ahmed Rubel will take on Alexander Wise of Great Britain while Md Tamimul Islam will face Steve Wijler of the Netherlands.
Thomas Rufer ranked 93rd scoring 313, Alexander Wise ranked 54th scoring 343 while Steve Wijler ranked 43rd scoring 336.
A total of 590 men’s and women’s archers from 88 countries from all over the world are taking part in the recurve and compound divisions of the meet that began Monday in the Netherlands.
A nine-member team including six archers and three officials are representing Bangladesh, reached Amsterdam on Saturday to take part in World Archery Championship 2019.
Among the six archers M Roman Shana, M Tamimul Islam and M Hakim Ahmed Rubel will compete in men’s recurve singles, men’s team and mixed team event while Beauty Roy will compete in the women’s recurve singles.
Asim Kumar Das and Susmita Bonik will take part in the men’s and women’s singles and mixed team event of the compound division.
If Bangladesh clinched the top-eight spot of the recurve division, they will be able to qualify for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic 2020.