Bangladesh completed their Tokyo Olympics' 2020 mission one week before the meet ends with athlete Jahir Rayhan competing in the country's last event of men's 400-meter run heats at the Olympics Stadium in Tokyo Sunday.
Jahir competed in the event's heats number-3 and finished 8th and last among the eight athletes of USA, Brazil, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Slovenia and Congo to eliminate from the" greatest show on earth.”
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Jahir Rayhan, who was very much keen to display his best performance in his favourite 400-meter run in Bangladesh's last event of the Tokyo Olympics, eat his word as he took 48.29 seconds against his best timing of 47.34 seconds.
In the heats number-3, M Cherry of USA finished top with a timing of 44.82 seconds, followed by J Jones of Barbados (45.04 ), C Taylor of Jamaica (45.20 ), D St Hillaire of Triniad and Tobago (45.41), L Janezic of Slovenia (45.44), GA Afoumba of Congo (46.03), L Carvalho of Brazil (46.12) and Jahir Rayhan (48.29).
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In the event's overall ranking, Jahir was placed 44th among the 48 competitors.
Jahir was the 3rd Bangladeshi athlete to compete in 400-meter run in the Olympics after 29 years after the participation of Mehdi Hasan in the Bercelona Olympics'1992 and Milzer Hossain in the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
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Earlier on last Friday, five Bangladeshi athletes out of six--archer Ruman Shana, Diya Siddique, shooter Abdullah Hel Baki swimmers Ariful Islam and Junaina Ahmed-- completed their Tokyo Olympics assignments.
Except shooter Baki and athlete Jahir Rayhan, all the Bangladeshi athletes performed their best show in the mega games.