Nat'l Summer Athletics from Sept 7

The 12th National Summer Athletics Championship will get underway at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka on September 7. Approximately 700 athletes from 64 district teams, seven divisional teams, various universities, physical colleges, services teams, Bangladesh Railway, Bangladesh Postal Service and educational boards will compete in 36 disciplines in the two-day meet, said officials of Bangladesh Athletics Federation (BAF) at a press conference at the BNS conference room yesterday.

Athletes who set new national records will be rewarded with gifts from the sponsor company RB Group and monetary rewards from BAF.