Army had a clear lead in the Bangabandhu 46th National Athletics Championships 2022 medal table after securing 15 gold, 11 silver and 13 bronze medals at the end of day two Saturday. At the Bangladesh Army Stadium in Banani, the second-placed Navy collected 11 gold, 15 silver and eight bronze medals. Bangladesh Ansar and VDP, Prison Directorate (Bangladesh Jail) remained in third place with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals each. Out of 40 events of the three-day national competition, 28 were decided in the first two days, featuring five new national records.   Three national records were made today – all by Navy women's athletes in the discus throw, 50000-metre run and 3000-metre run. Zafrin Akter made the day's first record in the women's discus throw covering a distance of 43.49 meters to break the 29-year-old event's record of 42.90 metres made by Josna Afroz in 1993. Read more: Bangabandhu National Athletics begins on Friday Rinki Biswas made the day's second record in the women's 5,000-metre run with a timing of 19:41.40 seconds to improve her previous record of 19: 57.50 seconds in the event. Shamsun Nahar Ratna set the day's third record in the 3,000-metre run with a timing of 10:39.55 seconds to break the event's record of 10:43.30 seconds made by Rinki Biswas in 2021.

Imranur Rahman of Bangladesh Army emerged as the new fasted man of Bangladesh by clinching men’s 100-meter sprint title with new national record in the Sheikh Kamal 45th National Athletics Championship’ 2021 that began on Monday at Bangladesh Army Stadium in Banani here. Bangladesh Athletics Federation has organized the national meet marking the Birth Centenary of Bangabandhu and the Silver Jubilee of the country’s Independence, State Minister for Social Welfare Ministry M Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru inaugurated the three-day meet Monday afternoon. READ: 3-day Bangabandhu 44th National Athletics commences Imranur, a 28-year-old dual citizen of the UK and Bangladesh, clinched the men’s 100-meter gold with a time of 10.50 seconds breaking late Mahbub Alam’s 22-year old event record of 10.54 seconds set in 1999.   Sumaiya Dewan of BKSP emerged as the new fastest woman of the country by clinching women’s 100-meter sprint title clocking 12;30 seconds. They dethroned Mohammad Ismail and Shirin Akhter, both of whom finished second to bag silver in their respective event this time. READ: Bangabandhu 44th National Athletics begins Friday

The thee-day Bangabandhu 44th National Athletics Championship was officially inaugurated on Saturday afternoon at the Bangabandhu National Stadium here although the competition in some disciplines already began on Friday.

The three-day Bangabandhu 44th National Athletics Championship, marking the birth centenary of Bangabandu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will begin on Friday at the Bangabandu National Stadium here.