Athlete Imranur Rahman, an England-based Bangladesh-origin sprinter, made his career-best time of 10.11 seconds in the 100-metre sprint in an competition held in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London recently. The Bangladesh Athletics Federation recognised the personal best timing of the England-based Bangladesh-origin sprinter as Bangladesh's national record as the meet was approved and accredited by the World Athletics. Read : World Athletics: Imranur Rahman of Bangladesh finishes first in heat of 100-m sprint Imranur's performance is officially ranked and will be attached to his and Bangladesh's official databases. Earlier, Imranur clinched the historic gold medal, the first-ever by any Bangladeshi athlete at the Asian level, in the men's 60-metre sprint of the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships held at the Kazakhstan capital Astana last February. This was the first ever medal for any Bangladeshi athlete in an Asian-level athletics championship. Read : Bangladesh Special Olympics team leaves for Germany to participate in Special Olympics World Games The 29-year-old sprinter clinched the country's dream gold by winning the men's 60-metre sprint title with a record time of 6.59 seconds. Imranur, who appeared in the country's athletics last year, emerged as the country's fastest man with a national record in his maiden competition with timing of 10.29 seconds. Read : Imranur conferred with country's first-ever gold at Asian-level athletics He further improved his record at the Asian Athletics Championship held in Bangkok in July this year with a time of 10.25 seconds in the 100-metre sprint. Bangladesh is expecting a good result from Imranur in this month's Asian Games to be held in China.

Bangladesh's fastest man, the UK-based Bangladesh-origin sprinter Imranur Rahman on Sunday evening ceremonially received the country' s historic gold medal, first ever at Asian level from the men's 60-meter sprint of the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships held at the Kazakhstan capital Astana. This is the first ever medal for any Bangladeshi athlete at Asian level athletics competition President of Asian Athletics Association Dahlan Jumaan Al Hamad of Qatar handed over the glittering gold medal to Bangladeshi wonder boy Imranur Rahman at a medal distribution ceremony in Astana  Sunday evening when the national flag of  Bangladesh hoisted for the time in Asian meet and national anthem was also played. General Secretary of Bangladesh Athletics Federation Advocate Abdur Rakib Montu, now in Kazakhstan as Bangladesh team leader, was also present on the occasion and confirmed it to UNB over phone Sunday evening. Read more: National Athletics: Army lead medal table with 15 golds, 11 silvers, 13 bronzes Imranur Rahman, the two times fastest man of Bangladesh since his appearances  in the country's  athletics last year,  brought laurel for the country within one year by clinching the 60- meter sprint gold medal in the Asian Indoor Athletics Championship in Astana Saturday night. The 29-year-old sprinter Imranur Rahman clinched country's dream gold by winning the men's 60-meter sprint title  with a record timing of  6.59 seconds. Earlier, Imranur, took 6.70 seconds in the event's heats to qualify for the semifinals and made an improved  timing of  6.61 seconds to move into the final as the second best on photo-finish behind a Qatari sprinter. In the event's final on Saturday night, the Bangladesh wonder boy  Imranur  further improved his personal best timing of 6.59 seconds to win a surprise gold medal for  the country. Read More: Imranur, Shirin to represent Bangladesh in Asian Indoor Athletics Imranur's previous best timing of  the event was 6.64 seconds, which he made in the World Indoor Athletics stage in Belgrade in 2022. However, Bangladesh's fastest women's sprinter Shirin Akter was eliminated from the heats of the 60-meter sprint clocking 7.93 seconds. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, State Minister for Youth and Sports M Zahid Ahsan Russell MP, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister and Athletics Federation President M Tofazzel Hossain Miah and BOA President General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, in separate messages,  congratulated Imranur Rahman for bring laurel for the country. Read More: Glory brought to Bangladesh by women athletes changing public attitude, speakers say 

Bangladesh's fastest man Imranur Rahman advanced to the semifinal of the men's 100-meter sprint with his new record timing in the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games held in the Turkish city of Konya on Monday.He was placed 2nd in his respective heats of the men's 100 meters sprint, participated by eight sprinters, with a timing of 10.01 seconds.Imranur will compete in the semifinal on Tuesday at 4:30 pm local time. Also read: National Ranking Open Archery Tournament in Tongi on ThursdayImranur, who set the event's new national record in the just concluded Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022, with a timing of 10;47 seconds, today (Monday) further improved the event's national marks. An 84-member contingent are representing Bangladesh in the Islamic Solidarity Games Konya' 2022 in eleven disciplines of sports--Athletics, Archery, Fencing, Gymnastics, Handball, Karate, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Wrestling, and Weight-lifting.Although the formal opening of the Islamic Solidarity Games 2022 will be held on Tuesday (Aug 9), a good number of the competitions have already started and some medals were also decided in Konya.

Imranur Rahman emerged as the first Bangladeshi athlete to reach the 2nd round of the men's 100-meter sprint of the World Athletics Championship Eugene '2022 in Oregon,  USA on Saturday. Imranur, the fastest man of Bangladesh, took part in heat number 2 and finished 3rd among the six athletes making his individual best timing of 10.47 seconds featuring a new national record Saturday early hour (Bangladesh time). The previous national record and best timing of Imranur was 10.50 seconds made in the National Athletics Championship held in last January to break the event's 22 years old record. Also read: Imranur will represent Bangladesh in World Athletics Championship 2022 Imranur Rahman, who is undergoing higher training in the United Kingdom, reached the 2nd round of the world meet finishing overall 4th among 14 athletes, who advanced to the 2nd round with good timing in their respective four heats. However, Imranur did not compete in the 2nd round of the meet later due to light injury during day's warm-up session. Also read: 45th National Athletics: Imranur, Sumaiya emerge as fastest man, woman He finally  decided not to participate in the 2nd round as per advice of the doctors,  because his injury may get worse further in the meet, ahead of the two major international meets--Commonwealth Games and Islami Solidarity Games.

Imranur Rahman will represent Bangladesh in the World Athletics Championship 2022 to be held at Eugene in Oregon of the United State of America from July 14-25. Imranur Rahman, now in the United Kingdom, expected to reach Oregon on July 12 to compete in the World meet. Also Read: Wimbledon wild-card entry steals set, not win, from Djokovic Imranur will compete in the heat of the men's 100 meter sprint on July 15 at 1:30 pm Bangladesh time. Meanwhile, general secretary of Bangladesh Athletics Federation Advocate Abdur Rakib Montu left Dhaka for USA on Tuesday while Acting President of Athletics Federation Advocate Nur Uddin Chowdhury (Nayon) MP will leave here for USA on Wednesday.