UNB, Dhaka :
A 53-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.
The first batch of the Bangladesh contingent with some 30 athletes and officials will fly Bangkok on Wednesday (Nov 12) while the remaining members of the contingent will depart from here ahead of their respective events.
President of Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation (BTTF) Mohammad Abdul Karim has been named as the chef-de-mission of Bangladesh contingent comprising 33 athletes, 11 team officials and nine contingent officials.
Basketball player Mithun Kumar Biswas will carry the Bangladesh flag in the games.
Leading Asian athletes will battle for 169 gold medals in the 26 disciplines of sports at seven different beach venues.
Of the 26 disciplines of sports in the continental games, 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 (both in 60-meter run), M Kitab Ali (team official),
Basketball – Tareq Aziz, Mithun Kumar Biswas, Shamsuzzaman Khan Shoyeb and Khaled Mahmud Akash (players) and Abhijit Sarkar (team official),
Handball – NA Alimuzzaman Chowdhury Kanon, Ashiqur Rahman Khan, Bipul Ghosh, Naharul Kawsain, Mahbubul Alam Chowdhury, Jamal Hossain, Imdadul Haque, Sudhan Barua, Towhidur Rahman and Kazi Rashed Newaj (players), M Nurul Islam and M Nasirullah (team offcials).
Men’s Kabaddi – Arshaduzzaman, Kamal Hossain, Ashraful Sheikh, Tipu Sultan, Zakir Hossain and Zayed Hossain (players), Ratan Kumar Saha and Abdul Jalil (team officials).
Women’s Kabaddi- Shahnaj Parvin Maleka, Farzana Akhter Baby, Sharmin Sultana Rima, Fatema Akhter Poly, Kazi Shaheen Ara Bristi and Rupali Akhter (players), Subimal Chandra Das and Roushan Akhter Chhabi (team officials)
Volleyball – Sayed Al Zabir and Shafiqur Rahman (players) and Golam Rasul Khan (official).
Marathon Swimming: Mahmudun Nabi (5-kilometer marathon swimming) and Seniat Khan (team official)
Wrestling – Mohammad Dipu (Under 70 kgs) and Sheikh Shepon (Under 80 kgs) and M Tabiur Rahman (team official).
