Bangladesh moved into the quarterfinals of men's team events in both recurve and compound in the 20th Asian Archery Championships at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.

The hosts had also moved into the quarterfinals of the compound mixed team event beating Hong Kong 148-142 in the first round, but they were eliminated after suffering a 158-144 defeat to South Korea in the quarterfinals. South Korea and India set the final clash in this event.

In men's recurve team event, Bangladesh comprising Roman Sana, Tamimul Islam and Hakim Ahmed Rubel beat Mongolia by 6-0 set points to move into the quarterfinals while Bangladesh men's compound team comprising Abul Kashem Mamun, Nazmul Huda and Milon Molla handed a 231- 220 defeat to their Iraqi counterparts to advance into the quarterfinals. Bangladesh will face number one side South Korea in both quarterfinals.

In women's compound team, Bangladesh will play quarterfinal against Chinese Taipei, the number three team of the seven-team event.

Apart from the team events, Bangladesh also produced some good results in individual events. Roman and Tamimul qualified for the third elimination round in men's individual recurve while Mamun booked berth in pre-quarterfinals of men's individual compound.

Roman beat Ma Hing Kim of Myanmar by 6-0 set points to set his third elimination round clash against Sri Lanka's De Silva Sanjeev, who is 43rd ranked player of the tournament. To reach the quarterfinals, Roman must win his next two matches in the third and fourth elimination rounds.

Though Roman had an easy time, Tamimul faced tough challenge from Bhutan's Kinley Tshering as the 19-year-old boy from BKSP entered the shoot-off to win the match by 10-7 points after the five sets ended 2-2. Tamim lost the first two sets before winning the third set to come into the race. The fourth set ended in a draw before the fifth set went in favour of Tamimul and thus the fate of the match entered into shootout in which Tamimul emerged winner.

Tamimul, however, will have to face second-ranked Lee Woo Seok of South Korea in the next round.

Sana and Tamimul's teammates Rezowan and Rubel were eliminated from the first and second round after losing to India's Gourave Lambe and China's Tao Jin respectively.

In men's individual compound event, Mamun beat Pakistan's Adeel Qadir 141-138 to set his pre-quarterfinal match against number 10 archer Weng I-Cheng of Chinese Taipei while Nazmul Huda, Ehsan Ahmed and Milon Molla were eliminated from the first elimination round.

“Our target was to qualify for the quarterfinals and we made it in four events. So the initial target was achieved and we will be focusing on the quarterfinals now,” said Bangladesh coach Nisith Das after yesterday's event.

Das was happy with the fact that three archers moved into the next round in individual events, especially with Roman, the lone of Bangladeshi to qualify for the quarterfinals.

Tamimul believed that they have done their best yesterday but they need to put improved performance against South Korean opponents in both individual and team events.

“We have been transforming our practice performance to competitive matches but we need to do more than today if we have to beat the South Korea,” said the Youth Commonwealth Games gold medallist.