Bangladeshi lone archer Shamoli Ray completed her 31st Olympic Games campaign as she made early exit from her lone Archery event of women’s individual elimination round losing to upper-ranked Gabriela Bayardo of Mexico at Sambodromo in Rio Wednesday midnight.
Shamoli, who was placed 53rd among 63 competitors scoring 600 out of 720 in the individual ranking round last Friday, lost to 12th ranked Gabriela Bayardo of Mexico by straight 0-6 points in the elimination round.
Gabriela was placed 12th scoring 648 in the individual ranking round.
Shamoli made a good fight against her mighty rival scoring 27-28 in the first set, but was eliminated from the race after conceding 23-28 and 25-28 defeat in the remaining two sets.
Shamoli even failed to score her individual best in the ongoing Olympics. Her individual best score was 618 made in the Asian Championship in Bangkok in 2015.
Ace shooter and the 2014 Commonwealth Games silver medalist Abdullah Hel Baki was the first Bangladeshi athlete eliminated from the qualification round of his favourite Olympics event, men’s 10-metre air rifles, at the Olympic Shooting Centre in Rio last Monday.
Baki finished 25th among the 50 competitors scoring 621.2 in six qualifying series.
In his first Olympics appearance, Bangladeshi celebrated shooter Baki scored 103.8+ 104.0+105.4+103.6+ 100.6 +103.8 = 621.2 to be eliminated from the qualification round.
However, Bangladeshi swimmer, Sonia Akhter, will compete in women’s 50-metre freestyle heats on Friday (Aug 12) at 10 pm (BST) while athlete Shirin Akhter will contest the women’s 100-metre sprint heats, also on Friday (Aug 12) at 8:55 pm (BST).
Athlete Mesbah Ahmed will take part in his only event of the men’s 100-metre sprint heats on Saturday (Aug 13) at 6:30 pm, (BST).
