UNB, Dhaka :
A 49-member contingent will represent Bangladesh in the 4th Asian Beach Games to be held in the Thai tourist town of Phuket on November 14-23.
President of Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation (BTTF) Mohammad Abdul Karim has been named as the chef-de-mission of Bangladesh contingent, which comprises 33 athletes, and 16 team and contingent officials.
Leading Asian athletes will battle for 169 gold medals in 26 disciplines of sports at seven different beach venues.
Bangladesh will compete in seven beach sports — Athletics, Marathon Swimming, Basketball, Handball, Kabaddi (Men’s & Women’s), Volleyball, and Wrestling
Bangladesh contingent: Chef-de-mission – Mohammad Abdul Karim, NOC Attaché – Fakhruddin Haider, Physician – Debesh Chandra Talukder, NOC Staff – M Mehdi Hasan.
Athletics – Mesbah Ahmed and Shirin Akhter (athletes), M Kitab Ali (official);
Basketball – Tareq Aziz, Mithun Kumar Biswas, Shamsuzzaman Khan Shoeb and Khaled Mahmud Akash (players), Selim Chowdhury and Abhijit Sarkar (officials);
Handball – Chowdhury NA Alimuzzaman Kanan, Ashiqur Rahman Khan, Bipul Ghosh, Naharul Kawsian, Mahbubul Alam Chowdhury, Jamal Hossain, Imdadul Haque, Sudan Barua, Towhidur Rahman and Kazi Rashed Newaz (players), M Nurul Islam and M Nasirullah (officials);
Men’s Kabaddi – Arduzzaman, Kamal Hossain, Ashraful Sheikh, Tipu Sultan, Zakir Hossain and Zayed Hossain (players), Ratan Kumar Saha and Abdul Jalil (officials);
Women’s Kabaddi – Shahnaz Parvin Maleka, Farzana Akhter Baby, Sharmin Sultana Rima, Fatema Akhter Polly, Kazi Shaheen Ara Brishti and Rupali Akhter (players), Subimal Chandra Das and Roushan Ara Chobi (officials);
Volleyball – Saeed Al Zabir and Shafiqur Rahman (players), Golam Rasul Khan (official);
Marathon Swimming – Mahmudun Nabi (swimmer), Seniat Khan (official);
Wrestling – Mohammad Dipu and Sheikh Ripon (wrestlers), M Tabiur Rahman (official).
