Only silver in life-saving

Bangladesh won a silver medal in the 'life saving' event of the First South Asian Beach Games held at Hambantota in Sri Lanka yesterday.
Palash Chowdhury, who on Monday finished fifth in the 5-km swimming, took part in the run-swim-run event for the first time and finished behind Sri Lanka's Shahan R Singhe. In this event, a competitor has to start running from a certain point of the beach area up to a certain zone of the sea area and then return to the starting point.
Bangladesh also won a bronze medal in women's kabaddi beating Nepal 64-21 after suffering two consecutive defeats against India and hosts Sri Lanka. Organisers had expected gold medal in women's kabaddi and surfing, but athletes of both events put on disappointing pergformances.
Renowned surfer Zafar Alam skipped the event of 'life saving' due to fever and Abdul Aziz became fifth amongst seven competitors.