Two Bangladesh athletes -- swimmer Samiul Islam Rafi and teenaged archer Mohammad Sagor Islam-- will compete in their respective swimming and archery events of the Paris Olympics 2024 on Tuesday (July 30). 

Bangladeshi swimmer  Samiul Islam Rafi will start their campaign in the ongoing Paris Olympics Swimming competing in the men's 100-meter freestyle heats at the Paris La Defense Arena on Tuesday (July 30). 

Samiul, who trained in Thailand ahead of the Paris Olympics, will compete in lane number 6 of the heats number 2, will start at 11am local time on Tuesday.

Mohammad Sagor Islam, who directly qualified for the Olympics as the 3rd Bangladeshi athletes after golfer Siddikur Rahman and archer Ruman  Shana,  will compete in the elimination round (Round of 1/32) of men's recurve singles against the Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Mauro Nespoli also on Tuesday (July 30) at Invalides.

Thirty two archers will qualify for the next round of the event.

Earlier on last Thursday, teenaged Sagor Islam competed in the ranking round of the  men's recurve singles and was placed 45th among 64 participants scoring 652 at the same venue.  

Another Bangladesh swimmer Sonia Khatun will compete in the women's 50-meter freestyle heats at the same venue on August 3.

Bangladeshi fastest man Imranur Rahman will compete in Bangladesh's last Paris Olympics event men's 100- meter sprint heats on Wednesday  (August 4) at the Stade de France.

Earlier on Sunday, Bangladeshi shooter Mohammad Robiul Islam eliminated from the qualifying round of the men's 10-meter air rifles  showing a dismal performance in Paris Olympics shooting at the Chateauroux Shooting Complex.

He was placed 43rd among the event's 49  competitors scoring 624.2 to worse his previous best  score of 628.

A 13-member contingent, consisting of five athletes and eight officials, are representing Bangladesh in the Paris Olympics 2024, the biggest sports carnival in the world.

Leading athletes from 206 countries around the world are competing in 32 disciplines of sports  in a battle for 329 gold medals.

Five Bangladeshi athletes are taking part across four disciplines of sports-- archery, athletics, swimming, and shooting.