NSF and BWF expect better performance
Neither the National Shooting Federation (NSF) nor Bangladesh Weightlifting Federation (BWF) have boldly given any hopes of clinching gold in the upcoming South Asian Games when both the federations declared their squads for the regional extravaganza to be held from January 29 to February 9 in Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA), which has been running the residential camps of 23 disciplines of the SA Games for one year with a hope of clinching 17 golds including shooting and weightlifting, arranged a programme at the BOA Bhaban to inform the media about their preparations as well as possibilities in the 11th edition of the Games. The shooting team consists of 25 members while weightlifting team comprises eight members.
The BOA had earlier drawn up a list of possible gold medals it had been expecting and shooting and weightlifting were on the list. They have been expecting three gold medals from shooting and one gold from weightlifting, but the general secretaries of both federations did not give them any assurance of bagging gold medal.
Mohiuddin Ahmed, general secretary of Bangladesh Weightlifting Federation, however hoped to do better than what they did in Colombo SA Games in 2006 where they bagged one silver and five bronze medals.
"We will perform better this time but I can't give you any hope that the weightlifters will clinch gold medal. We almost matched the performance of our main rivals India and Pakistan," said Mohiuddin hinting that Hamidul Islam had a chance to surprise all as he had improved a lot since January last year.
Istiaque Ahmed Bablu, the general secretary of National Shooting Federation, also echoed the sentiment of Mohiuddin and said they want to wipe out their failures of the Colombo SA Games by making better results this time at home.
But, Bablu did not make it clear what he meant by 'better results', rather he said the shooters have been doing well in the camp and at the moment they are not in a position to reveal the scores of the shooters to give the undue advantage to their opponents.
Convener of the SA Games Media Committee Asaduzzaman Noor, Chef de Mission of Bangladesh contingent Mizanur Rahman Manu, general manager Bangladesh contingent Mahfuza Akter Kiron were among others present on the occasion.
WEIGHTLIFTING SQUAD: Akramul Huq (56kg), Abdualla al Mumin (85kg) Hamidul Islam (77kg), Monoronjon Roy (77kg), Biddut Kumar Roy (105kg) and Feroz Mahmud (105+ kg). Reserved: Shimul Kanti Singha (62kg) and Farhad Ali (94kg). Officials: Faruk Ahmed Sarker (coach), Mohammad Motaleb (coach) and Shah Rezaur Rahman Hiru (manager).
SHOOTING SQUAD: 10m air rifles (women): Sharmin Akhter Ranta, Syeda Sadia Sultana, Tripti Datta and Sharmin Akter (reserved); 10m air rifle (men) Abdullah Hel Baki, Asif Hossain Khan, Shovon Chowdhury and Mahmudul Hasan (reserved); 25m pistol (women): Sinthia Nazneen, Mitti Dewan and Antara Islam; 25m pistol (men): Hafizur Rahman, Moksedur Rahman and Selim Azad; 50m rifle (men): Towfique Shahriar, Ramjan Ali and Abdullah Hel Baki; 50m rifle (women): Sabrina Sultana, Tripti Dutta and Sharmin Shilpa; 10m air pistol (women): Armin Asha, Sinthia Nazneen and Farhana Kawser; 10m air pistol (men): Hafizur Rahman, Moksedur Rahman and Selim Azad; 50m pistol (men): Nadimul Islam, Selim Azad and Hafizur Rahman; skeet (men): Iqbal Islam, Nuruddin Selim and Altamash Kabir.
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