Bangladeshi athlete Al Amin clinched the gold medal in the 3000- metre steeplechase event of the Malaysian Invitational Open Athletics Championship 2024 held at the Stadium Darul Makmur in Pahang, Malaysia on Saturday. Al Amin brought laurel for the country by winning the event's gold medal with a timing of 9:32.39 seconds. Jr AHF Cup Hockey: Bangladesh Women's team make good start beating Thailand Gouranga Roy emerged as the first Bangladeshi athlete to win the first-ever silver medal abroad in hammer throw covering a distance of 50.28 metres. Another Bangladeshi athlete Sourav Mia won the bronze in the pole vault jumping 4.40 metres. National Archery: Police Archery team clinch top slot securing four gold, four silver medals All the three medal winning Bangladesh athletes belong to Bangladesh Army. Earlier in the opening day (Friday),  Ritu Akter of Bangladesh clinched silver medal in the high jump.

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.

Five Bangladeshi athletes, including a woman, left the capital for India on Thursday to take part in the 35th Indian National Junior (U-20) Athletics Championships’2019 scheduled for November 2-6 at Acharya Nagarjuna University in Andhra Pradesh. The athletes are Mahfuzur Rahman, Zahir Raihan, Saiful Islam Khan, Rakibul Islam of Bangladesh Navy, and Umme Hafsa Rumki of Bangladesh Jail (Prison Directorate). The Bangladeshi athletes will participate in the Indian meet under the banner of Dhaka Team to prepare themselves for the ensuing South Asian Games, General Secretary of Bangladesh Athletics Federation (BAF) Advocate Abdur Rakib Montu told UNB on Thursday. “We are bearing partial expenses of the athletes while Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Jail are sponsoring the air tickets of their respective athletes,” Montufurther said. Among them, four athletes- Mahfuzur Rahman, Saiful Islam Khan, Zahir Raihan and Umme Hafsa Rumki will represent Bangladesh in the upcoming South Asian (SA) Games scheduled to be held in Nepal from December 1-10. In the last National Summer Athletics Competition’2019, UmmeHafsaRumki created a new national record in the women’s high jump, jumping 1.68 metres to improvethe previous record of 1.66 metres while MahfuzurRahmanset a new national mark in the men’s high jump,jumping 2.15 metres. ZahirRaihan clinched the gold medal in men’s 400-m run, Saiful Islam in the men’s 200-m sprint and Rakibul Islam in men’s 800-m run in the summer meet