Dhaka, July 17 (UNB) - Bangladesh National Hockey team clinched their maiden win in AHF Men's Asian Indoor Hockey 2019 beating Philippines by 9-0 goals in their third Pool A match at Chonburi of Thailand on Wednesday.

For Bangladesh, Mainul Islam Koushik made his double hat-trick scoring six goals, Rasel Mahmud Jimi netted two and Ashraful Islam scored one.

After conceding two successive defeats, Bangladesh have secured 3 points from their three matches of the tournament.

In the goal fest match, Bangladesh put pressure on Philippines team within the opening minute and bagged its fruits while Mainul Islam Koushik scored two goals in a span of just one minute (4th and 5th minutes) (2-0).

In the 9th minute, Ashraful Islam widened the margin scoring third goal for his side from Penalty Corner (3-0).

Koushik struck again and made his hat-trick scoring his third goal in the 11th minute (4-0).

Before the first half, Bangladesh netted two more goals against Philippines.

Rasel Mahmud Jimi opened his account in the 17th minute (5-0) while Koushik netted his fourth goal in the 20th minute (6-0). 

In the second half, Bangladesh continued their domination with their attacking brand of hockey.

Koushik netted his fifth goal in the 30th minute (7-0) while Jimi netted his second goal in the 33rd minute (8-0).

In the 36th minute, Koushik completed his double hat-trick scoring his sixth goal of the match and sealed the first-ever victory for Bangladesh in Asian Indoor Hockey meet (9-0). 

The match saw three Bangladeshi players getting green cards and one yellow card.

Mainul Islam Koushik, Ashraful Islam and captain Farhad Ahmed Shitul got green cards while Milon Hossain got a yellow card. 

In their last Pool A match, Bangladesh will face upper-ranked team and hosts Thailand on Thursday (July 18) at the same venue at 8 pm (BdST).

Bangladesh Squad: Rasel Mahmud Jimi, Mainul Islam Koushik, Fazle Rabbi Hossain, Ashim Gope (GK), Imran Hasan Pintu, Ashraful Islam, Farhad Ahmed Shitul (C), Khorshedur Rahman, Sarwar Hossain, Roman Sarkar, Milon Hossain, Abu Sayed Nippon (GK).

South Korea, July 17 (AP/UNB) — Ana Marcela Cunha improved on her already impressive career in open-water swimming at the world championships with a win in the 5-kilometer race on Wednesday.

It was the 27-year-old Brazilian's fourth gold and 10th medal overall at the world championships since 2011.

Cunha, who was consistently in the top 10 throughout the race, pulled away in the final 300 meters to finish in 57 minutes, 56.00 seconds, a second ahead of Aurelie Muller of France. There was a tie for the bronze medal: American Hannah Moore and Leonie Beck of Germany both finished in 57:58, two seconds behind Cunha in the non-Olympic event.

Defending 5-kilometer world champion Ashley Twichell of the U.S. placed seventh.

Cunha has won the 25-kilometer race three times at the worlds, but this was her first gold at the 5-kilometer distance. Her previous best finishes over five kilometers were bronze medals at Barcelona in 2013 and at Budapest in 2017.

On Sunday, Cunha finished fifth in the 10-kilometer race to earn a Tokyo Olympics berth for 2020. At the Olympics, only the 10-kilometer distances for men and women will be staged.

"In the 10k, I really wasn't happy with that result," Cunha said. "Today my strategy was to swim a bit more relaxed in the first half. I was behind the girls until the third lap when I started to move up. In the final lap, I just got myself to where I needed to be."

Moore was thrilled with her tie for the bronze medal at her first world titles.

"This has by far exceeded my expectations," the American said. "I knew it would be really rough, just based on watching the other races. The girls went out really fast, so I tried to stay calm and be a little braver than I wanted to be, and it worked out in the end."

She said she was inspired by the performances of her American teammates in Gwangju.

"Watching Haley (Anderson) win a silver medal in the 10k and to see that she and Ashley (Twichell) both achieved the Olympic qualification in the 10k really fired me up," Moore said. "I just got into this sport last year and I'm kind of learning from them."

All 54 starters completed Wednesday's race.

The open water races continue Thursday with the 5-kilometer team relay. The 25-kilometer races for men and women, also non-Olympic events, conclude the open-water program on Friday.

Dhaka, July 16 (UNB)- Bangladesh National Hockey team conceded a 0-8 goals defeat to the holders Iran in their second match of AHF Men's Asian Indoor Hockey 2019 at Chonburi of Thailand on Tuesday.

Reza Norouzzadeh made a hat-trick and Hamid Nooranian scored two goals while Amirmahdi Mirzakhanian, Taherirad Navid and Beiranvand Behdad scored one goal each for Iran.

Iran have secured 3 points from their first match of the tournament while Bangladesh is yet to open their account after facing two successive defeats.

On Tuesday’s match, Hamid Nooranian scored the first goal for his side (1-0) while Nooranian doubled the margin scoring his second goal in the 3rd minute (2-0).

Bangladesh got another blow while Reza Norouzzadeh scored his first goal from the penalty corner in the 10th minute (3-0).

In the 16th minute, Amirmahdi Mirzakhanian scored the fourth goal for Iran (4-0).

Iran continued their domination over Bangladesh from the beginning of the second half and clinched another success while Reza Norouzzadeh netted his second goal from another penalty corner in the 22nd minute (5-0).

Taherirad Navid extended the margin scoring the sixth goal for his side in the 30th minute (6-0) while Reza completed his hat-trick scoring third goal in the 39th minute (7-0).

In the stoppage time, Beiranvand Behdad netted the final and eighth goal of the game from the penalty corner (8-0).

In the next match, Bangladesh will face another debutants the Philippines on Wednesday (July 17) at the same venue at 9 am (BdST).

Bangladesh Squad: Rasel Mahmud Jimi, Mainul Islam Koushik, Fazle Rabbi Hossain, Ashim Gope (GK), Imran Hasan Pintu, Ashraful Islam, Farhad Ahmed Shitul (C), Khorshedur Rahman, Sarwar Hossain, Roman Sarkar, Milon Hossain, Abu Sayed Nippon (GK).

Dhaka, July 16 (UNB) – Bangladesh’s premier archer Mohammad Ruman Shana was eliminated from men’s recurve single in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics Test Event at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Shana conceded a 3-7 defeat to Sultan Duzelbayev of Kazakhstan in the round of 32 of the men’s recurve single.

Archer Ruman Shana and the German Coach of Bangladesh Archery team Martin Frederick will return home on July 19 (Friday).

Earlier, the 24-year-old Bangladeshi archer scored 662 to finish 10th among 67 archers in the ranking round on July 12 at the same venue.

The Olympics Committee organised the “Tokyo 2020 Test Event-Ready Study Tokyo” as part of the preparations for the upcoming Olympic Games.

Ruman Shana, who qualified for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 on merit basis, took part in the event to improve his performance and skills ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

Shana also won the first-ever bronze medal in the World Archery Championship last month at s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.

Gwangju, July 15 (AP/UNB) — Chinese diver Chen Aisen won his third straight world championship title by partnering with Cao Yuan in the men's 10-meter platform synchronized diving event Monday.

China took its overall tally at these swimming world championships to seven golds in the diving events as Wang Han and Shi Tingmao finished first in the women's 3-meter springboard synchronized event.

Chen and Cao earned 486.93 points to beat silver medalists Aleksandr Bondar and Viktor Minibaev of Russia, who finished with 444.60. Tom Daley and Matty Lee of Britain took bronze with 425.91 points.

Chen, a double Olympic champion, has now won world championship gold in the event with three different partners. He won his first title with Lin Yue in 2015 and then teamed up with Yang Hao in 2017.

For Cao it was his second gold at Gwangju as he also won the men's 3-meter springboard synchro event on Saturday.

Earlier, Wang and Shi dived flawlessly to win the women's event with 342.00 points.

Melissa Citrini Beaulieu and Jennifer Abel of Canada won silver with 311.10 points while Paola Espinosa Sanchez and Melany Hernandez Torres of Mexico took bronze with 294.90.