Only Roman survives
Country's top archer Roman Sana notched two straight victories to move into the third round of men's recurve bow event in the Archery World Cup in Berlin yesterday.
Roman, who failed to put up his best in the qualification round to finish 43rd among 137 competitors, handed a 6-4 defeat to Luo Wei-Min of Chinese Taipei in the first round after a nervy fight against the 70th ranked archer.
He outplayed Wei-Min in the first set before drawing the second and losing the third set. The 23-year-old archer from Khulna took the fourth set before ensuring victory in the fifth and final set.
Then Roman, who is training in Switzerland under the scholarship of Olympic Solidarity programme, beat Russia's Alexander Kozhin 6-2 in the second round to set up a third round clash against Kim Woojin of Korea, who finished 11th in qualification.
However, Bangladesh's two other archers -- Emdadul Haque Milon and Ibrahim Sheikh Rezwon -- produced disappointed results by losing to Pierre Plihon of France and Furukawa Takaharu of Japan 2-6 and 0-6 respectively to be eliminated from the competition.
In compound event, Ashim Kumar Das and Abdul Kashem Mamun, who produced their best in the qualification round on Tuesday, were eliminated from the first round as 29th ranked Ashim lost to 84th ranked Valerio Della Stua of Italy 140-141 while 41st ranked Mamun lost to 72nd ranked Artyom Gankin of Kazakhstan 130-133.
Bonna Akter was also eliminated from the first round in compound event after losing against Ingrid Olofsson of Sweden 121-128.
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